An apparently bored-to-death Plod's Conscience wrote:

Radio Hams are in a unique privileged position in that
they can construct and operate their own equipment! No-one
else has this privilege. Users, such as broadcasters,
the po lice and armed farces, CBers and mobile phone
users have to purchase ready-made gear.

They *can* construct it, but I don't know even one that does.

The technical excitement motivates Radio Hams to compete
with each other to determine who has designed and manufactured
the best-quality station. This competitiveness is found in DXing,
competitions and fox-hunts.

Same applies to many CB operators.

However, beware! A Ham Radio licence is such a
desirable thing to have that there are large
numbers of people who wish to be thought of
as Radio Hams when, in fact, they are nothing
of the kind! Usually such people are a
variation of the CB Radio hobbyist; they buy their
radios off the shelf and send them back to be
repaired

Wow. You actually REPAIR the modern
processor-SMD-memory-menu-submenu-miniature-components crap we have
now?

they are not interested in technical discussion
and sneer at those who are; they have no idea how
their radios work inside and have no wish to find out;

20 years ago, yes. Nowadays, all those people don't bother about
placing an antenna, they just use MSN messenger. What's left on CB
today are people that love radio.

they are free with rather silly personal insults;

You should listen to some of our Dutch 2-meter repeaters. And you
should listen to yourself when you talk about CB operators.

* lots of crap cut out *

One infallible way to disambiguate the CB Radio Hobbyist
from the _REAL_ Radio Ham is to solicit their view of the
difference between CB Radio and Ham Radio. A Radio Ham will
perceive Ham Radio to be a technical pursuit and will
perceive CB Radio to be a social communications facility
no different in essence to a land-line telephone or a
GSM mobile in the hands of a 6-year-old.

Your views are obscured by ignorance. I know many CB operators who are
appealed more by technology than all those HAM's who, after passing
their exam, never touched a soldering iron in their life anymore.

* Lots of insults cut out *

Fortunately, we have a different view on CB here in Holland. One
channel on CB is even an official VRZA home frequency, where official
HAMs and CB operators come together to talk about their hobby. The
result: they attend our meetings and start to study for the 'real' HAM
status.

Don't repell them, attract them.

Hans (PD0AC), Almere, the Netherlands

Construction thier own gear
announcing ..

G8IFW

I built my own PSU regulated, and better than trio kenwood,
1- 20 amps 12v

built my own ATU - after looking at many designs
built my own design

Photos to proove

Designed my own aerial, different to what ive seen on
the net and got 9+ to belgrade 40m SSB 50w

but even though, finding the parts prooved to be hard
even though I have 2 electronics shops local

anyone got any air spaced 200w 500pf vairables
to sell ?

keith

Im glad the free democratic world can operate
on amatuer radio without other peoples opinions being forced down their
throat

yes we must have standards
and yes its about time the standard QSO should be about
people talking together not some copy of a miltery test

if one has to eat dictioneries
one would be better off getting a life
wouldnt one

over articulation, well thats democratic freedom as well,

we could try and see the good in the new changes

keith

Sheep

well one day i met a customer who went on holiday in Greece
he picked up the local news paper and was suprised
(so woz i)

it said the following story

the police was driving along a country road
and they saw a man in a field being curious and a beady
eye they stopped and looked and decide to jump over
the fence and arrest a man who was having sex with a donkey
(im not suprised) ( you dont know greek donkeys)
anyway it turns out he was an english man from east london
who was hauled into Court the next day

He haw he haw He haw

anyway the conversation went on about welsh men
now this is ....... ?????
another customer present at the time said he Knew a woman who
worked on a Welsh Farm and this lady actually witnessed some of the
farm workers shagging the sheep, for real

bahhhd baahhhd

well opinions maybe, but when witnessed by others it is what it is

Keith

what next, Gay camels,
Transvestite horses

any way the good news about this news group is we have conversations
not some pretend militery operating proceedure.

and i still dont see anyone writing E mails in morse do you ?

anyone disagree just say your readability 5 rig here is XXX QTH is XXX
73eees good bye

that was pointless

keith

Worse than M3
CBer`s
Worse than
Cb`ers
MW pirates

walk the plank

ps ive heard many M3 an G8 and they sound perfectly
normal they didnt have one bad word for anyone
you dont here them moaning
theres good and bad ....

keith

Well here the bad
Shirts and ties and people who dress like they
come out of the 50`s ****y old Y fronts and smelly
crouch trousers nylon shirts DSS glass held together by
elastoplast,

"Keith" wrote in message
...
Well here the bad
Shirts and ties and people who dress like they
come out of the 50`s ****y old Y fronts and smelly
crouch trousers nylon shirts DSS glass held together by
elastoplast,





Proove it ;~)

JIMBO wrote:
"Keith" wrote in message
...
Well here the bad
Shirts and ties and people who dress like they
come out of the 50`s ****y old Y fronts and smelly
crouch trousers nylon shirts DSS glass held together by
elastoplast,





Proove it ;~)

lol, classic Jimbo

--
huLLy
Tel: 07976 123278
ICQ 136-987-925

yes the docter warned me,
but he thought I was rather attactive,
and under new laws the English have made
he thought that one I could be a good husband for him
but I said theres no way on dis earth
that I would marry another man

so that was that