FAQ
 

Polymath wrote:
John,

Thank-you for your kind words. It must be difficult,
however to navigate through the QRM of false Polymaths
who are infesting this NG. (I note that a rather silly
and infantile CBer has already replied to you as Polymath)

For some reason, despite taking a stance of encouraging
all comers to exert themselves and join in what is an
exciting technical pursuit, I am plagued with quite
a few mental defectives who forge postings, amongst other
things. I really do not understand the infantile mentality
of them, for, if they were to put the same effort into
pursuing Ham Radio that they do into their childish attacks,
they'd find life much more rewarding!

if you think you "FAQ" is refelctive of a stance of "encouraging all
comers to exert themselves and join in what is an exciting technical
pursuit" then I must say you even more screwed than most of OT posting
about Code code uber alles

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"Cmdr Buzz Corey" wrote...

No, not all chicken banders are law breakers, but a very large portion are.

For some reason, I am beginning to feel hungry.

Catch you later, I'm off for a large portion of chicken...


Regards,

Peter.

FAQ
 

The mistake the FCC made was dropping the code requirment down to 5 wpm.
Lots of nivices squeeked under the wire.

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, The Magnum wrote:


Yet another reason I will never obtain a ham ticket.

Good news for ham radio!

Yep, there will be no one left on Ham soon after all the old farts have
died...

You seem to think that
your little piece of paper raises your IQ.

Yet with you cber IQ you couldn't pass the test even though the answers
to the questions are available.

Try taking an IQ test and i bet theres hardly any difference between you and
most people on CB. The only test you would outshine most CBers would be
radio related...

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Dana wrote:
The mistake the FCC made was dropping the code requirment down to 5 wpm.
Lots of nivices squeeked under the wire.

I agree they made that mistake, they are about to fix that one by
droping it to where it belonged in the first place zero

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"Dana" wrote in message
.com...
The mistake the FCC made was dropping the code requirment down to 5 wpm.
Lots of nivices squeeked under the wire.

What is this absurd fascination with Morse Code? Wouldnt you rather just
talk to people? I know all about the arguements about it getting through
when all else fails but is it really life and death?? If i cant get through
on the radio I use a Phone or the Internet. After all its just a hobby.
Besides, doesnt all that dot dot dot.. dash dash dash give you a headache
after a while??
Dont get me wrong, im not having a go at Amateurs im just asking the
question.. why is it so important?

Regards,
Graham

FAQ
 

Jock. wrote:

Yes, but he's a Yank.

oh ... didnt know that.

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Dana wrote:

The mistake the FCC made was dropping the code requirment down to 5 wpm.
Lots of nivices squeeked under the wire.

the mistake every authority has made is....

when you cheapen a licence , you get lower standards of behaviour being
displayed by the licensees.

when those who have licences did very little to get that licence they will
treat that licence with very little respect.

when those licensees are governed by rules/regulations then their
behaviour may well become the subject of complaints.

complaints must be investigated.
this costs money.


end result....
lowering the 'cost of administration' allows cb'ers onto amateur bands.
cb'ers on amateur bands will cause problems.
problems cause complaints.
complaints cause investigations.
investigations cost money.
money that was hoped to have been saved in the first place !!


and a lot of this behaviour can be put down to ONE THING.
(even the interview with an rsgb president on the arrl website shows this)

the plan to get rid of compulsory morse testing for hf access.

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"The Magnum" wrote:


"Dana" wrote in message
.com...
The mistake the FCC made was dropping the code requirment down to 5 wpm.
Lots of nivices squeeked under the wire.

What is this absurd fascination with Morse Code? Wouldnt you rather just


its not absurd.

if you did the morse test you would understand.

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"zjjPK "

rcom.ie.net wrote in message ...
"The Magnum" wrote:


"Dana" wrote in message
.com...
The mistake the FCC made was dropping the code requirment down to 5
wpm.
Lots of nivices squeeked under the wire.

What is this absurd fascination with Morse Code? Wouldnt you rather just


its not absurd.

if you did the morse test you would understand.

Then can you explain it to me then? Im not being flippant, I actually want
to know why its important and why, in your words, it drops the quality of
people who chose to become Amateur if they don't do morse... why does it
make them any less of a good Amateur?... and why do you think that because
morse might be dropped the band will become full of CB people who will wreak
havoc? And why do you class all CB'ers as the same?

FAQ
 

zjjPK wrote:
Dana wrote:

The mistake the FCC made was dropping the code requirment down to 5 wpm.
Lots of nivices squeeked under the wire.

the mistake every authority has made is....

when you cheapen a licence , you get lower standards of behaviour being
displayed by the licensees.

suppositions and unsuported

when those who have licences did very little to get that licence they will
treat that licence with very little respect.

again suposition


when those licensees are governed by rules/regulations then their
behaviour may well become the subject of complaints.

complaints must be investigated.
this costs money.

not realy the FCC did not bother with complaints for many years

that is why the bands got trashy
cut