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"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in
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"Alun" wrote in message
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(Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in
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Subject: News from France
From: Mike Coslo
Date: 5/9/2004 8:38 AM Central Standard Time
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Alun wrote:

I always used to meet people who told me they would get a licence
but for the code test. I think we could have had them in the hobby
if we had abolished code testing 20 years ago, but I think it is
too late and we have blown it. Nobody is clamouring to becme a ham
anymore.

WE haven't "blown" anything..."They" have had the opportunity
to get a
code-free license for what...12-13 years now..?!?!

Nope, we needed to give them HF while they were still interested.

Why is that Alun? Do you think that getting out a decent signal on HF
is a piece of cake?

Daily I hear the newguys trying to contact someone. Getting sorry
pathetic signal reports and going away in frustration.

Wonder how many new HFers we lose like that? You know the ones that
believe its soooooo easy to get up on HF? Probably hundreds per week.

I do the best I can when I hear someone like that. But it gets really
old when you trying to have a conversation with a bud, to talk to all
the S2 signals.

Perhaps 'giving' out HF is NOT the answer as you think.

Dan/W4NTI

And knowing CW is going to enhance their knowledge of how to set up and HF
station? I think not.

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