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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
Slow Code wrote: "J. D. B." wrote in : No Al, those are not arguments that take place with the model train hobby. The best scale is what is best for you. Unlike ham radio, no one tries to ram something down another hobbyist's throat. Same for buy vs. build. Not a discussion. You do what you want to do and no one is critical of the other. The way it should be in ham radio. You were that kid on the playground that always thought you were better than all the other kids and you tried to get other kids in fights didn't you Al? You seem to be always looking for confrontation. I think you're sniffing too much glue putting your model cho-cho trains together. you think SC prove that assertion (that you think) t appears to be flase Sc |
#52
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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
**** OFF ALREADY WITH HAM ****!
TAKE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE NOT HERE! AND BESIDE WHO GIVE **** ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO ASSHOLES WHO THINK THEIR ALL STUCK UP AND THINK THEY RULE THE WORLD an_old_friend wrote: Slow Code wrote: "J. D. B." wrote in : No Al, those are not arguments that take place with the model train hobby. The best scale is what is best for you. Unlike ham radio, no one tries to ram something down another hobbyist's throat. Same for buy vs. build. Not a discussion. You do what you want to do and no one is critical of the other. The way it should be in ham radio. You were that kid on the playground that always thought you were better than all the other kids and you tried to get other kids in fights didn't you Al? You seem to be always looking for confrontation. I think you're sniffing too much glue putting your model cho-cho trains together. you think SC prove that assertion (that you think) t appears to be flase Sc --- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0630-2, 07/26/2006 Tested on: 7/27/2006 2:41:02 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0630-2, 07/26/2006 Tested on: 7/27/2006 2:42:19 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
#53
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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
You know, this is the attitude that has kept me from being a licensed ham
operator. I have DX'ed for years, but find most of the operators to be smug asses who want to keep the hobby to themselves. I have no need to learn code, or more importantly, no desire. So you old fossils keep your exclusive little club and watch as it dies out with rotary telephones and vacuum tubes. Every ham I have met in person has been secretive and not at all willing to help anyone out. I sold a scope to one a few years back and in our conversation asked a few questions about becoming a ham. He was not willing to answer questions nor offer any advice, just for me to get an arrl book. He wouldn't even tell me what the repeater frequencies were for the 2 meter in our area. So, lets make the passing score 98%, 50wpm, and renew all classes every year. That ought to drive out the rest of 'em and keep you, Mr. Slow Code, as the king of all hams, even if you have no subjects to reign over. Come to think of it, I can talk to people all over the world via internet, send packets and slow scan tv, so why worry about propagation and antennae? "Slow Code" wrote in message nk.net... Just thought you should know that. Help save Ham radio and ignore Markie to save usenet. Thanks 1- No more automatic renewals. Individuals must retest and pass all elements required for their license class every ten years. 2- The passing score for written exams needs to be raised to 85%. 3- Code elements should be 13 wpm for General, and 20 wpm for Extra. 4- Make the no-code license one year non-renewable. 5- Cancel your ARRL membership until they decide to work to improve things and stop them from proposing ham radio that is like CB. |
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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
Blow Code, no more damage to my brain then the lead you are breathing in
when putting together your little radios with solder. But then again, the collector trains come pre-assembled so no glue is involved. One nice thing, the increase in value of some of these is incredible. Paid $20 each for two railcars. Now I am offered $400 for each of them. Not a bad hobby at all now is it. Don't believe me? Check the prices for Micro-Trains Illinois state cars (first in the series). Are trains a great hobby or what? Slow Code wrote: I think you're sniffing too much glue putting your model cho-cho trains together. Sc |
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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
Man, I went to a Train Show near me recently, I was AMAZED. I didn't know so
much Train Hobby stuff existed. WOW!!!!! Speaking of prices - all my train stuff went by the way side in a disaster. One "engine" I had - I seen at this show for $1400.00........ Man what a sinking feeling I had. I'm sure my dad didn't pay anywhere near "that". This was my "first" train show - as I was going to the Computer show adjoining it in the same hall. I think the train show had more customers than the Computer show. Some of the "Computer" vendors even related to such. Lou "J. D. B." wrote in message ... Blow Code, no more damage to my brain then the lead you are breathing in when putting together your little radios with solder. But then again, the collector trains come pre-assembled so no glue is involved. One nice thing, the increase in value of some of these is incredible. Paid $20 each for two railcars. Now I am offered $400 for each of them. Not a bad hobby at all now is it. Don't believe me? Check the prices for Micro-Trains Illinois state cars (first in the series). Are trains a great hobby or what? Slow Code wrote: I think you're sniffing too much glue putting your model cho-cho trains together. Sc |
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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
Tim wrote: So you old fossils keep your exclusive little club and watch as it dies out with rotary telephones and vacuum tubes. Out of curiosity, how old (years) is a fossil to you? Really. Every ham I have met in person has been secretive Strange, all the ones I have meet have been very nice. Come to think of it, I can talk to people all over the world via internet, send packets and slow scan tv, so why worry about propagation and antennae? Well if you are really just after instant gratification and no real sense of accomplishment, go for it. Some like the challanges. I suppose it is the cahllange aspect to a hobby that makes it fun. Like model building perhaps. I haven't meet a ham who got into it because he wanted fast and easy. These other hams you met, did you make it clear what you expected out of the hobby? John |
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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
Al Klein wrote:
What's wrong with ham radio being turned into CB? For one thing, we already had a couple of citizen's bands - we didn't need a dozen more. CB is dead. Turning it into CB is a meaningless statement. Your knowledge of CB is going back way too far when it was chaos. Again, you do not know what you are talking about as you are making references that are very old and very outdated - just like CW and code testing. For them? It's not. If they can't pass the test they don't get the privilege. That's just the way life is. If you're not 75 inches tall, we don't let you be 6'3". These days some people want to be what they aren't, regardless of reality. Giving ham licenses to anyone who wants one doesn't make hams of people who know nothing, it makes the ham license worthless. Why not give a license to anyone who wants one? It's just not that big of deal anymore. We are not dealing with lethal voltages like we did with all the tube crap used years ago. How does memorizing answers to "technical questions" make you a better ham? I said it doesn't. I said that learning makes you more knowledgeable. That's true, learning does make you more knowledgeable. People can learn on their own, learn what interests them, learn what they need to know. Not what you or I THINK they need to know. Everyone says that CW is old hat and modern modes At least we agree on something and nice to see you admit that everyone is now saying this. That thing passing over your head was the point. No, I got the point o.k. You admit CW is old hat. Yup, it is a simple circuit. It's also readily available in books, the Internet, etc., so how does memorizing the circuit to pass a test, make you a better ham? Understanding how it works makes you more knowledgeable. Evidently you're one of those who needs things repeated a few times. What if I don't care to know how it works? Most women and many men have no idea how a car engine, transmission and car computer works, but they still get a license to drive. By your standards I guess people need to know how their television, AM and FM radio, etc. works before they are allowed to purchase such an item....hmmmm? You never listened to QSOs on 20? Or questions asked at ham club meetings? Or in radio fora? Yup, I have listened to and have many QSOs on all ham bands. And most of the crap you profess to be discussed is simply not generally discussed. Learning requires understanding. Memorizing isn't understanding. It was proved over 100 years ago that rote memorization isn't even a mediocre way of teaching. Yes and no, depends what it trying to be learned. Memorization can be learning. People learn what they WANT and NEED to learn. No one ever truly learns by having something forced on them. "A man convinced against his will is still of the same opinion." So let them get on radio immediately with no testing. The method has been available since the 60s. IT'S CALLED CB! You want HF? Get on 11 meters. You want UHF? Get on 465. It's all there. Same old tired CB argument again....yawn.....Yes, you can get on CB, Family Radio, GMRS and guess what, you can operate a radio and communicate without a test and the world does not come to an end. And leave ham radio to hams. If you get a ham license, no matter how simple the test or no test, you are a ham and you can use the appropriate bands for your license class. Let's get more people into the service and hobby, let them explore and learn what they want - not what you want them to learn. Or, as has happened over the past few decades, they won't. But now that you said they will ... magic ... they will, eh? Oh but yes they do. Some more than others. Your statement is baseless and simply an opinion. So is mine. A gratuitous statement can be refuted by an equally gratuitous statement. So those who seek answers become hams - those who don't become CBers. What's with the "everyone is equal even if the only way to achieve it is to dumb the entire world down" crap? No, those with a ham license are hams. Those without a ham license are not hams. It's just that simple. Yup, dumb it down and bring them all in. In the real world. O.K. then, it's Mississippi. Demanding answers without putting in any effort seems to have substituted for learning. I guess. This is the opinion of many old fart gate keeper hams, "I had to pass a test to get a ham license and it was hard. So everyone else needs to have to do what I did or it's dumbing down the license." Yes it might be dumbing down the license. But because you had to do it, doesn't mean it's right for the world today. Things are changing. Times are changing. If you cannot deal with change, then just give up on life because change is inevitable. About like everything you've said here. See my rule of logic about gratuitous statements as noted above. Yes, if you're in the bottom 10%, it must surely look that way. You get to be in the top 10% merely because that's the way you want things to be, and heaven help the rest of us if we don't give you your way. Yes, wouldn't a classless society be nice? Everyone treated equally? Probably will never happen as it did not work for Russia and the Eastern Bloc, but do we really need to have haves and have nots when it comes to a hobby and a public service? I don't think so. |
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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
Al Klein wrote:
That's the way it *is* in ham radio if you look at it through the same glasses you're looking at model railroading through. You want to use different scales to weigh the same thing, then claim it weighs a different amount? Sorry, but I don't play that game. Gosh Al, you really have a sour perspective of the world. No wonder all your writings are so anger filled. |
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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
J. D. B. wrote: Al Klein wrote: Or, as has happened over the past few decades, they won't. But now that you said they will ... magic ... they will, eh? Oh but yes they do. Some more than others. Your statement is baseless and simply an opinion. So is mine. A gratuitous statement can be refuted by an equally gratuitous statement. Demanding answers without putting in any effort seems to have substituted for learning. I guess. This is the opinion of many old fart gate keeper hams, "I had to pass a test to get a ham license and it was hard. So everyone else needs to have to do what I did or it's dumbing down the license." and maybe the test took was harder than it had any real reason to be if that was the case I am sorry but that is no reason to keep making or rather go back to making the SAME mistake |
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You're not a real ham if you never took or passed a Code test.
an old freind wrote: J. D. B. wrote: Al Klein wrote: Or, as has happened over the past few decades, they won't. But now that you said they will ... magic ... they will, eh? Oh but yes they do. Some more than others. Your statement is baseless and simply an opinion. So is mine. A gratuitous statement can be refuted by an equally gratuitous statement. Demanding answers without putting in any effort seems to have substituted for learning. I guess. This is the opinion of many old fart gate keeper hams, "I had to pass a test to get a ham license and it was hard. So everyone else needs to have to do what I did or it's dumbing down the license." and maybe the test took was harder than it had any real reason to be BWHAHAHAHAHA You couldn't read or comprehend it even so, retard. "Test took" BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! if that was the case I am sorry You sure are a sorry sack of ****, Markie. |
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