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From: Slow Code on Fri, Aug 18 2006 4:26 pm


" wrote in
From: Pin-medic on Fri, Aug 18 2006 10:30 am

I agree Bob, and maybe we'd have better operators as a result.
Considering the waning interest in our dying hobby though, all that
would probably do is eliminate even more operators from the ranks,
leading the FCC to reduce our bands even more by selling them to the
highest bidder.

1. The FCC has NOT "reduced 'your' bands," nor is it somehow
threatening to "sell them" to anyone. Had you bothered to
look at this process of AUCTIONING certain COMMERCIAL bands
and the Congressional laws establishing it, you would have
seen that it does NOT apply to radio amateurs.

Hey, "Slow," no comment on that?

2. Since WARC-79 'you' have gotten MORE BANDS and that has
increased up to a few years ago when 'you' got the five
60m channels.

1979 was TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO.

3. There doesn't seem to be any "waning interest" in USA
amateur radio considering the overall licensee numbers.
The newcomer licensees are - just managing - to keep the
licensee numbers in numeric bouyancy, almost keeping pace
with those letting their licenses lapse. See www.hamdata.
com FCC data page.

Still no comment, "Slow?" :-)




1: No more automatic renewals. Individuals must retest and
pass all elements required for their license class.

Wow...you will be REALLY popular with VEs...FCC too...

2: The passing score for written exams needs to be raised to 85%.

Wayyyy too low. 100%! Nothing less...

3: Code elements should be 13 wpm for General, and 20 wpm for Extra.

Wayyyy too low. 30 WPM for General, 80 WPM for Extra!

4: Make the no-code license one year non-renewable.

Make it two weeks.

It's fairly obvious you've just alienated half of your
"brotherhood"! [better armor your lead-in...]

Let's take back ham radio.

Why? Was it kidnapped? Lost along with Apollo 11 data?

BRING BACK SPARK! The very first RF transmitter in
amateur radio! Preserve the past! Honor "sparky"
tradition!


Hey, "Slow," here's a better idea: Let's get you to a
cryogenic chamber and FREEZE you and your longing for
times of your youth. You want everything FROZEN, don't
you? Cool? Cool...

Pax.

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From: Slow Code on Fri, Aug 18 2006 4:26 pm


2: The passing score for written exams needs to be raised to 85%.

Wayyyy too low. 100%! Nothing less...


Hey now wait a minute, 85% is probably the absolute best he (SC) could do -
thus making that the ceiling! So, if you make it 100% - he too wouldn't be
licensed! DAMNED........... that would be a shame. :)

L.

Lennie Confuses His Amateur Radio Rant's for His Marital Bed Again
 

wrote:

Let's get you to a
cryogenic chamber and FREEZE you and your longing for
times of your youth. You want everything FROZEN, don't
you? Cool? Cool...

Poor Lennie...All that make-believe experience going to waste on a
make-believe life.

Steve, K4YZ

Lennie Confuses His Amateur Radio Rant's for His Marital Bed Again
 

Not Lloyd wrote:
"K4YZ" wrote in message
oups.com...

wrote:

Let's get you to a
cryogenic chamber and FREEZE you and your longing for
times of your youth. You want everything FROZEN, don't
you? Cool? Cool...

Poor Lennie...All that make-believe experience going to waste on a
make-believe life.

(but..but...his wife has two Masters degrees in the medical arena...doesn't
that count for something?)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh....No...She does NOT have degrees in the "medical"
arena...She's a correspondence school psych graduate.

And if she can't exert some control over his behaviour on line (if
she indeed knows what he does, which I SERIOUSLY doubt), then I can
only doubt that she was ever remotely credible as a shrink.

Steve, K4YZ

Lennie Confuses His Amateur Radio Rant's for His Marital Bed Again
 

"K4YZ" wrote in message
oups.com...

wrote:

Let's get you to a
cryogenic chamber and FREEZE you and your longing for
times of your youth. You want everything FROZEN, don't
you? Cool? Cool...

Poor Lennie...All that make-believe experience going to waste on a
make-believe life.

Steve, K4YZ
(but..but...his wife has two Masters degrees in the medical arena...doesn't
that count for something?)

Lennie Confuses His Amateur Radio Rant's for His Marital Bed Again
 

"K4YZ" wrote in message
ups.com...

Not Lloyd wrote:
"K4YZ" wrote in message
oups.com...

wrote:

Let's get you to a
cryogenic chamber and FREEZE you and your longing for
times of your youth. You want everything FROZEN, don't
you? Cool? Cool...

Poor Lennie...All that make-believe experience going to waste on a
make-believe life.

(but..but...his wife has two Masters degrees in the medical
arena...doesn't
that count for something?)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh....No...She does NOT have degrees in the "medical"
arena...She's a correspondence school psych graduate.

And if she can't exert some control over his behaviour on line (if
she indeed knows what he does, which I SERIOUSLY doubt), then I can
only doubt that she was ever remotely credible as a shrink.

Steve, K4YZ
....
Well, it was, after all, Lennie's spin. For whatever that was worth. Len
ruined his attempts at credibility when Stagger Lee "outed" Len for posting
over the call sign of an Amateur operator who Len apparently disliked.
Stagger even outed/traced Lennie's IP address to the military base Len was
then employed at.
Len is a blowgut. Simple as that. Pay him no heed.

Lennie Confuses His Amateur Radio Rant's for His Marital Bed Againis Amy Fireproof?
 

K4YZ wrote:
wrote:

Let's get you to a
cryogenic chamber and FREEZE you and your longing for
times of your youth. You want everything FROZEN, don't
you? Cool? Cool...

Poor Lennie...All that make-believe experience going to waste on a
make-believe life.
is Amy Fireproof?

It's amazing what people will say to try to justify dumbing down Amateur Radio.
 

Nada Tapu wrote in
:

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:07:15 -0500, "wa0kbz"
wrote:

Glen
Don't know if I 100% agree with your code speeds but I do thing the NO
Code should be for 1 year and none renewable.
I had to take my license in front of the FCC and not so VE who may or
may not help you out to get a license.
As I am a big VHFer I don't know how these NO Code guys are going to
understand beacons. They are all code and most at 10 ~ 20 wpm. I guess
the next thing will be, they will want all beacons either digital or
voice. YUK! Not up in the GHZ range yet but maybe some day.
73, Bill, WA0KBZ

Right on, Bill! Thanks for your thoughts.

NT



It's funny, and most telling. The no-code hams have everything over 30
MHz, but it's the code hams that are the one's moving ham radio forward
and doing anything technical wise. I guess the no-coders are still trying
to figure things out.

SC

It's amazing what people will say to try to justify dumbing downAmateur Radio.
 

Slow Code wrote:
It's funny, and most telling. The no-code hams have everything over 30
MHz, but it's the code hams that are the one's moving ham radio forward
and doing anything technical wise.

If that's true, it's certainly a change from half a
century ago when we HF hams observed the VHF/UHF
hams revolutionizing amateur radio with their
technical expertise.
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

It's amazing what people will say to try to justify dumbing down Amateur Radio.
 

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
m...
Slow Code wrote:
It's funny, and most telling. The no-code hams have everything over 30
MHz, but it's the code hams that are the one's moving ham radio forward
and doing anything technical wise.

If that's true, it's certainly a change from half a
century ago when we HF hams observed the VHF/UHF
hams revolutionizing amateur radio with their
technical expertise.
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Not at all. As usual, SC is again proving he is a bitter little man.