On 12 Feb 2007 16:29:18 -0800, "
wrote in
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On Feb 12, 2:35?pm, robert casey wrote:
NEWINGTON, CT, Feb 9, 2007 -- As new Amateur Radio Service rules phase
in Friday, February 23,

You realize that the 23rd, when you divide 2 by 3, you'll get 666, the
devil's area code? Sounds like a bad omen to me.... :-)

Sorry, that is a SERIOUS FACTUAL ERROR!!!

Dividing 2 by 3 results in the decimal fraction 0.66666666666666...

That is NOT the Bible's reference to "the number of the beast."


The number of the beast is 616, not 666.

On Feb 12, 8:03 pm, Frank Gilliland
wrote:
On 12 Feb 2007 16:29:18 -0800, "
wrote in
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On Feb 12, 2:35?pm, robert casey wrote:
NEWINGTON, CT, Feb 9, 2007 -- As new Amateur Radio Service rules phase
in Friday, February 23,

You realize that the 23rd, when you divide 2 by 3, you'll get 666, the
devil's area code? Sounds like a bad omen to me.... :-)

Sorry, that is a SERIOUS FACTUAL ERROR!!!

Dividing 2 by 3 results in the decimal fraction 0.66666666666666...

That is NOT the Bible's reference to "the number of the beast."

The number of the beast is 616, not 666.

Frank, welcome back.

BTW, what is the mark of his little red-hatted monkey?

On Feb 12, 5:03�pm, Frank Gilliland
wrote:
On 12 Feb 2007 16:29:18 -0800, "
wrote in
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On Feb 12, 2:35?pm, robert casey wrote:
NEWINGTON, CT, Feb 9, 2007 -- As new Amateur Radio Service rules phase
in Friday, February 23,

You realize that the 23rd, when you divide 2 by 3, you'll get 666, the
devil's area code? *Sounds like a bad omen to me.... *:-)

* Sorry, that is a SERIOUS FACTUAL ERROR!!!

* Dividing 2 by 3 results in the decimal fraction 0.66666666666666...

* That is NOT the Bible's reference to "the number of the beast."

The number of the beast is 616, not 666.

Hey, ol' Wirenut, I thought your number was "up" or something? :-)

Welcome back.

LA

On 13 Feb 2007 11:48:00 -0800, "
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On Feb 12, 5:03?pm, Frank Gilliland
wrote:
On 12 Feb 2007 16:29:18 -0800, "
wrote in
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On Feb 12, 2:35?pm, robert casey wrote:
NEWINGTON, CT, Feb 9, 2007 -- As new Amateur Radio Service rules phase
in Friday, February 23,

You realize that the 23rd, when you divide 2 by 3, you'll get 666, the
devil's area code? ounds like a bad omen to me.... :-)

Sorry, that is a SERIOUS FACTUAL ERROR!!!

Dividing 2 by 3 results in the decimal fraction 0.66666666666666...

That is NOT the Bible's reference to "the number of the beast."

The number of the beast is 616, not 666.

Hey, ol' Wirenut, I thought your number was "up" or something? :-)

Welcome back.

LA


I'm not "back"..... the thread is being crossposted to rrcb and a few
other groups. As for the number of the beast, check this out:

http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/beast616.htm

On Feb 12, 7:29 pm, "
wrote:
On Feb 12, 2:35?pm, robert casey wrote:

NEWINGTON, CT, Feb 9, 2007 -- As new Amateur Radio Service rules phase
in Friday, February 23,

You realize that the 23rd, when you divide 2 by 3, you'll get 666, the
devil's area code? ? Sounds like a bad omen to me.... ? ?:-)

Sorry, that is a SERIOUS FACTUAL ERROR!!!

Dividing 2 by 3 results in the decimal fraction 0.66666666666666...

That is NOT the Bible's reference to "the number of the beast."



The difference is 665.33333333333333334. Way, way off. Completely
wrong. A Factual Error!

On 11 Feb 2007 13:45:13 -0800, "policy-ham"
wrote:

Found on qrz.com. The ARRL now only wants only no code hams. And as
for the rest of us?

I'm an ARRL member and I haven't gotten an email canceling my
membership. If they dumped all us coders they'er membership would go
down to almost zero. It ain't gonna happen. The ARRL welcomes
everyone.
KG8PM

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:38:05 GMT, helmsman
wrote:

+++On 11 Feb 2007 13:45:13 -0800, "policy-ham"
+++wrote:
+++
+++Found on qrz.com. The ARRL now only wants only no code hams. And as
+++for the rest of us?
+++
+++I'm an ARRL member and I haven't gotten an email canceling my
+++membership. If they dumped all us coders they'er membership would go
+++down to almost zero. It ain't gonna happen. The ARRL welcomes
+++everyone.
+++KG8PM
**********

Yep as long as you send in your money every year they don't care.

james

"policy-ham" wrote in message
oups.com...
Found on qrz.com. The ARRL now only wants only no code hams. And as
for the rest of us?

Not true what you say about the ARRL. Amateur radio is only as good as the
effort you put into it. If you can't do code, you cannot communicate with a
huge subset of the amateur population. That is a fact. You never will be
able to so until your learn code, FCC requirement or no FCC requirement.
There is some DX you will never get, some countries you may never contact,
many people you will never meet.

Some no-coders sound like the gay rights lobby: They seem to be trying to
make no-code the "norm". "I want you to think I am normal". "I am as just
good as you, I can do HF now, I can be a real 'Ham'". (Gays can get
"married"). True by regulation, but not really in practice.

In the foreseeable future you will never truly be a ham until you can QSO in
code; you will only hold a piece of paper authorizing you to communicate on
HF. Don't shoot the messanger. Don't bother disagreeing with me; it is the
large subset of the amateur base that you have to convince and,
unfortunately, that will take a while to change IF it ever does change. When
people are sick of SSB QRM or we cannot QSO by voice due to conditions, we
can simply move to the CW sub-bands and you are left "holding the mike".

As Walter Cronkite used to say. "That's the way it is..." February 23, 2007.

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:35:46 -0500, "Stefan Wolfe"
wrote:

Don't bother disagreeing with me; it is the
large subset of the amateur base that you have to convince and,
unfortunately, that will take a while to change IF it ever does change.

And when you're all dead, nobody will remember you, or if they do
they'll laugh their asses off.

"Jim Shaffer" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:35:46 -0500, "Stefan Wolfe"
wrote:

Don't bother disagreeing with me; it is the
large subset of the amateur base that you have to convince and,
unfortunately, that will take a while to change IF it ever does change.

And when you're all dead, nobody will remember you, or if they do
they'll laugh their asses off.

So you depend upon some sort of massive die-off to validate your license
class?