guess wrote:

CRAP!!!!
I have been using HF/2Mtr on SSB and Morse both on transmit and receive for
over 15 years, I have over 1500 QSL cards, never had a licence, nor never
will. Why should I take some pathetic test and pay for a licence. I bought
the gear and antennas, thats enough, I certainly do not intend to *pay the
government* for the privilidge of using it.
This ******** about some assholes crusing around *pinpointing* illegal
operators is crap and you know it. OK, just say for argument sake that some
of these ficticious licensed ham pillocks knock on your door, What are they
going to do? nothing they can do! I would just tell them to ****-off.
If they reported you to the authorities FIRST thing they got to do is find
your gear, (it is NOT against any law to own ham radio equipment, licenced
or not.) Then they gotta prove in a law court that it was actually you
transmitting. I don't think the government would waste their time.
Face it, there are thousands of unlicened Hams out there, always has been,
always will be.
Like I said, I will NEVER pay any government money to speak to a guy in a
different country on my own equipment from my own home. Neither will I take
any goddam stupid test, thats for schoolkids.
No, you carry on transmitting Corwin, assholes to the FCC and the other
sheep who simply go to all the bother of taking a test and paying out hard
earned $$ just to get a piece of paper with some number on it that you stick
on your radio-shack wall. I prefer to hang pictures from Playboy on my shack
wall.
regards
Anon
KAØDAZ
AE3W
N7FR
N0DRF
Take your pick, I have thousands more


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Amateur Radio is a public service, the primary purpose of which is to
provide communications for the public and public services when other
means are not available.

If it weren't for this the FCC would have sold the Amateur Radio
bandwidth a long time ago.

I could list here some of the nice things that hams do for other people,
but it would be too long.

Why would you want to associate yourself with this group of do-gooders,
if even as an imposter?

Perhaps a psychiatrist could give us a diagnoses here.

So why do we care if you bootleg?

jw
k9rzz

"Bruce W.1" ) writes:

Amateur Radio is a public service, the primary purpose of which is to
provide communications for the public and public services when other
means are not available.

If it weren't for this the FCC would have sold the Amateur Radio
bandwidth a long time ago.

I could list here some of the nice things that hams do for other people,
but it would be too long.

Why would you want to associate yourself with this group of do-gooders,
if even as an imposter?

Perhaps a psychiatrist could give us a diagnoses here.

I think that's a stretch.

Amateur radio exists because people played with radios from day 1.
There was no use yet for the thing, and amateurs were off there
playing with the stuff along with the "professionals". It's only
with the playing that practical uses came along. And once there
were practical uses, the rules came.

Since amateurs had already staked out use of the new thing, they fought
to keep it. It helped a lot that there were "amateurs" who had a lot
to do with the development of radio.

Amateur radio is unique in that virtually all the other radio services
came along later, and the service had to be carved out. But nobody said
"we need a service for people to play with radio", nobody said "society
will be better off with this". Amateur radio exists as a radio
service because it was already in existence.

The public service thing was created later, and it's propogation as
a basic concept seems to be to ensure the existence of the service.

But, amateur radio is first a playground for playing with radio. For
a long time, it could justify its existence because young people would take
it up, and that interest would get them to pursue technical careers. It's
a gray area how much was developed in amateur radio, but it's quite clear
that through the history of radio, many amateurs made significant inroads
in the field.

Take note that when I was licensed here in Canada in 1972, it was
still the "Amateur Experimental Service".

Michael VE2BVW