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May 10th 04, 06:30 PM
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"Alun" wrote in message ... "Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in .net: "Alun" wrote in message ... (Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in : Subject: News from France From: Mike Coslo Date: 5/9/2004 8:38 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: 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. That response does not surprise me a bit Alun. Based on the fact that you do not know CW. How could you be expected to understand how much easier it is to operate a simple CW station, that it is a phone one. Dan/W4NTI |
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