"Invader3K" wrote in message
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"Invader3K" wrote in message
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Crap like this is why I haven't gone for a ham license. I've worked in
real broadcast radio and thought about taking the amateur test, but I
have no desire to be in a hobby filled with childish old geezers.


Now careful there who you call an old geezer. I'm the same age as Winnie the
Poo, and I too take umbrage with all the childish crud foisted upon the
newsgroups by SC and others of his ilk. I'd be willing to place a wager that
the SOB (Not to be implied that his name is Sweet Old Bill), is under 50
years of age and more likely, under 30. Certainly his mental age (and
capacity) is less than any of my 6 great grandchildren and one of those is
still in the oven.

Give the ham ticket another go. It's a great hobby despite the best efforts
of that little publishing company in Connecticut, the QCWA and a few
disgruntled idiots that have to have some reason to think themselves better
than others even if it's only through an obsolete mechanical skill likely
teachable to a reasonably smart chimpanzee.

W4ZCB

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:13:46 GMT, Harold E. Johnson wrote:

Give the ham ticket another go. It's a great hobby despite the best efforts
of that little publishing company in Connecticut, the QCWA and a few
disgruntled idiots that have to have some reason to think themselves better
than others even if it's only through an obsolete mechanical skill likely
teachable to a reasonably smart chimpanzee.
why you haveto dis poeple like me? bleive me I haev treid the code but
chmps cant do it so stfu. you just another staev.
http://bubbles.blogspot.com

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:13:46 GMT, "Harold E. Johnson" wrote:

Give the ham ticket another go. It's a great hobby despite the best efforts
of that little publishing company in Connecticut, the QCWA and a few
disgruntled idiots that have to have some reason to think themselves better
than others even if it's only through an obsolete mechanical skill likely
teachable to a reasonably smart chimpanzee.

If you truly believe all that, then you should also believe that ham (Indeed,
any) radio is an obsolete communications medium, since the world is now
hard-wired.

And if the chimp can learn Morse, why can't aspiring hams? Morse is easy at
lower speeds. Anyone who can't master it at up to 15wpm surely isn't bright
enought to to be trusted with his paws on the controls of a transmitter.

The primary justification for allocation of amateur radio spectrum has always
been emergency services. And in dire emergencies, operators might have to cobble
together makeshift equipment. In that case, it's much simpler -- and possibly
the only solution -- to build a cw transmitter than it is to come up with
modulation. Hence cw has always been the ultimate disaster scenario fall-back,
and should always remain a licensing requirement.

Otherwise, who needs hams, and why should they get any of the public radio
spectrum?

-- Larry

pltrgyst wrote:
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:13:46 GMT, "Harold E. Johnson" wrote:

Give the ham ticket another go. It's a great hobby despite the best efforts
of that little publishing company in Connecticut, the QCWA and a few
disgruntled idiots that have to have some reason to think themselves better
than others even if it's only through an obsolete mechanical skill likely
teachable to a reasonably smart chimpanzee.

If you truly believe all that, then you should also believe that ham (Indeed,
any) radio is an obsolete communications medium, since the world is now
hard-wired.

And if the chimp can learn Morse, why can't aspiring hams? Morse is easy at
lower speeds. Anyone who can't master it at up to 15wpm surely isn't bright
enought to to be trusted with his paws on the controls of a transmitter.

The primary justification for allocation of amateur radio spectrum has always
been emergency services. And in dire emergencies, operators might have to cobble
together makeshift equipment. In that case, it's much simpler -- and possibly
the only solution -- to build a cw transmitter than it is to come up with
modulation. Hence cw has always been the ultimate disaster scenario fall-back,
and should always remain a licensing requirement.

Otherwise, who needs hams, and why should they get any of the public radio
spectrum?

-- Larry

marqueer.

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:32:52 -0500, pltrgyst
wrote:

bright enought

Yeah right. I rest my case, your honor.

--
Boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse