good riddance.

Clint
KB5ZHT

In article , Alun Palmer
writes:


EI is the 7th country to abolish code testing by my reckoning

Ireland: Beautiful country, lovely people, but the same dumbed-down
hams! Not to worry, I'm sure us Yanks won't be far behind!

73 de Larry, K3LT

"Larry Roll K3LT" wrote in message
...
In article , Alun Palmer
writes:

EI is the 7th country to abolish code testing by my reckoning

Ireland: Beautiful country, lovely people, but the same dumbed-down
hams! Not to worry, I'm sure us Yanks won't be far behind!
73 de Larry, K3LT

Classic Larry comment :-) :-)

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK

Newsflash! - Singapore has abolished the code test. Now there are eight.

73 de Alun, N3KI

Great, not much longer and Ham Radio will be CBHAM RADIO world wide

"WA8ULX" wrote in message
...
Newsflash! - Singapore has abolished the code test. Now there are eight.

73 de Alun, N3KI

Great, not much longer and Ham Radio will be CBHAM RADIO world wide

Look at it this way Bruce. It will rid the CW segements of useless trash.
They will all be on SSB. Digital will also be safe because that requires
some intelligence to set up and operate a program. Thus elliminating most
to all of the dumbed down hamsters.

Of course it will be a proccess of attrition in the CW field. Eventually
there will be no one left.

I worry about that as much as I care about 'global warming'. I won't be
here that long.

Oh BTW with the bands so sorry (SFI 97) I notice there is basically NILL
action on SSB. But I hear lots of CW stuff....wonder why that is?

Dan/W4NTI

"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in
hlink.net:


"WA8ULX" wrote in message
...
Newsflash! - Singapore has abolished the code test. Now there are
eight.

73 de Alun, N3KI

Great, not much longer and Ham Radio will be CBHAM RADIO world wide

Look at it this way Bruce. It will rid the CW segements of useless
trash. They will all be on SSB. Digital will also be safe because that
requires some intelligence to set up and operate a program. Thus
elliminating most to all of the dumbed down hamsters.

Of course it will be a proccess of attrition in the CW field.
Eventually there will be no one left.

I worry about that as much as I care about 'global warming'. I won't
be here that long.

Oh BTW with the bands so sorry (SFI 97) I notice there is basically
NILL action on SSB. But I hear lots of CW stuff....wonder why that is?

Dan/W4NTI




It's because people convince themselves the bands are dead and don't
transmit. If nobody transmits, then there's no-one to work. Granted the
bands are poor, but the WAE contest, for example, showed it up as a self-
fulfilling prophecy.

Alun Palmer wrote:
"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in

Oh BTW with the bands so sorry (SFI 97) I notice there is basically
NILL action on SSB. But I hear lots of CW stuff....wonder why that is?

Dan/W4NTI





It's because people convince themselves the bands are dead and don't
transmit. If nobody transmits, then there's no-one to work.

So only the CW people know this Alun?

- Mike KB3EIA -

Mike Coslo wrote in
:

Alun Palmer wrote:
"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in

Oh BTW with the bands so sorry (SFI 97) I notice there is basically
NILL action on SSB. But I hear lots of CW stuff....wonder why that is?

Dan/W4NTI





It's because people convince themselves the bands are dead and don't
transmit. If nobody transmits, then there's no-one to work.

So only the CW people know this Alun?

- Mike KB3EIA -



If enough people say that conditions are too poor for SSB some people will
be daft enough to beleive it.

In article , Dave Heil
writes:

We're talking about two countries
with a little over 1,600 radio amateurs between them.

Maybe you know the answer to this one, Dave:

How many amateurs are there in the 9 countries that have dropped code testing?

73 de Jim, N2EY

N2EY wrote:
In article , Dave Heil
writes:

We're talking about two countries
with a little over 1,600 radio amateurs between them.

Maybe you know the answer to this one, Dave:

How many amateurs are there in the 9 countries that have dropped code testing?

176,685 in the year 2000 according to

http://www.iaru.org/statsum00.html

The UK and Germany are the bulk of that number.

Dennis Ferguson