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poor baby
here is towel "Dan Mattingly N0FQN" wrote in message ... Just what we need. Lazy belly aching people who want something for nothing. They'll get the HF bands and not appreciate what they have becuase they didn't have to work for it. Just like everything else in this country. Make it conveient or I'll complain and bitch about it and find someway to MAKE you change it for me. I deeply appreciate my PRIVILEGES on HF because I worked hard to get them. I guess the next step is 4 watts RMS and 12 watts PEP and Channelize the bands and of course NO TESTING!!!! God forbid we should ask them to take a test.. Dan N0FQN "Mark Russo" wrote in message ... One of these below will get you there... Seems to me that they should bump up the current General class to Advanced class. This way people who worked hard to get to General will not be locked in with the no code folks. That seems fair?. http://www.remote.arrl.org/news/stor.../01/19/1/?nc=1 Click he ARRLWeb: ARRL to Propose New Entry-Level License, Code-Free HF Access |
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hey ergo, it is "poor baby, here IS a towel.
Are you from the USA?? Are you a ham? Go back to CB you keyclown. Nothing nice to say? shut up! ergo wrote: poor baby here is towel "Dan Mattingly N0FQN" wrote in message ... Just what we need. Lazy belly aching people who want something for nothing. They'll get the HF bands and not appreciate what they have becuase they didn't have to work for it. Just like everything else in this country. Make it conveient or I'll complain and bitch about it and find someway to MAKE you change it for me. I deeply appreciate my PRIVILEGES on HF because I worked hard to get them. I guess the next step is 4 watts RMS and 12 watts PEP and Channelize the bands and of course NO TESTING!!!! God forbid we should ask them to take a test.. Dan N0FQN "Mark Russo" wrote in message ... One of these below will get you there... Seems to me that they should bump up the current General class to Advanced class. This way people who worked hard to get to General will not be locked in with the no code folks. That seems fair?. http://www.remote.arrl.org/news/stor.../01/19/1/?nc=1 Click he ARRLWeb: ARRL to Propose New Entry-Level License, Code-Free HF Access |
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Ham 12 years
ACS 2nd leader 46 states on 6meter worked mir SS 100's of stations on sats control opp 7 repeaters donate much time and equiptment to fire stations etc nothing nice to say? you STFU more hams=more emergency people "Steve Zodiac" wrote in message ... hey ergo, it is "poor baby, here IS a towel. Are you from the USA?? Are you a ham? Go back to CB you keyclown. Nothing nice to say? shut up! ergo wrote: poor baby here is towel "Dan Mattingly N0FQN" wrote in message ... Just what we need. Lazy belly aching people who want something for nothing. They'll get the HF bands and not appreciate what they have becuase they didn't have to work for it. Just like everything else in this country. Make it conveient or I'll complain and bitch about it and find someway to MAKE you change it for me. I deeply appreciate my PRIVILEGES on HF because I worked hard to get them. I guess the next step is 4 watts RMS and 12 watts PEP and Channelize the bands and of course NO TESTING!!!! God forbid we should ask them to take a test.. Dan N0FQN "Mark Russo" wrote in message ... One of these below will get you there... Seems to me that they should bump up the current General class to Advanced class. This way people who worked hard to get to General will not be locked in with the no code folks. That seems fair?. http://www.remote.arrl.org/news/stor.../01/19/1/?nc=1 Click he ARRLWeb: ARRL to Propose New Entry-Level License, Code-Free HF Access |
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nice list, ergo
and, BTW, I am NOT from the USA, I am a HAM since 1990, CALLSIGNS OE8SOQ and DD9XX, what are you guys going to do, if you hear a station from lets say VK, GB, DL, HB9, and many others, among them rare DX countries? First thing to ask wether or not they did pass the CW Test? and then not continuing the QSO?? Would this be polite? hamlike? How would your reaction be if some DX ham offends you like that? The proposed changes in the ARRL paper saying, that your FCC will grant lifetime credit for CW all previous licenced novices and techs. All techs will have general privileges. Will you stop working them on the bands? Will you resist to give them the point for ten-ten, WAS or whatever they are chasing? Will you first go to buckmaster or QRZ and look up the callsign to make shure not to talk to a NON-CW TESTED? This looks like to me as it was down the years in your country when no white one would have shook hands with a black man, or driven on the same bus. It is just RASISM. Will you let the best hobby in the world go down the sewer pipe just for beeing too proud of taking the CW test some time ago? I think, that there is no question about the historical weight of CW for radio comunications worldwide. Nowadays it has no more commercial nor official impact. It seems to me, that it is the same as knowing how to write on one of those old TRIUMPH Typwriters or handle one of those old TTY monsters whith the punched paperstrip. It is a great handycraft to be able to do this, but is is no more neccesary to learn how to write on one of those old machines. Ask someone who grew up with the PC keybord to do this - what will happen? In my homecountry, Austria, they dropped the requirements for CW test end of last year. BUT they stated in that law, that CW test can be required by the applicants in future, as long as the authority can supply CW-EXAMINERS. BTW, the former nocode Test was the same as for HF, just no CW. So every Austrian licencee is tested like an EXTRA in the US, exept the CW. And this is the same in all of the EUROPEAN countries. Just my half EURO worth Helmut OE8SOQ "ergo" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:0mlPb.93901$5V2.278472@attbi_s53... Ham 12 years ACS 2nd leader 46 states on 6meter worked mir SS 100's of stations on sats control opp 7 repeaters donate much time and equiptment to fire stations etc nothing nice to say? you STFU what is an STFU?? more hams=more emergency people "Steve Zodiac" wrote in message ... hey ergo, it is "poor baby, here IS a towel. Are you from the USA?? Are you a ham? Go back to CB you keyclown. Nothing nice to say? shut up! ergo wrote: poor baby here is towel "Dan Mattingly N0FQN" wrote in message ... Just what we need. Lazy belly aching people who want something for nothing. They'll get the HF bands and not appreciate what they have becuase they didn't have to work for it. Just like everything else in this country. Make it conveient or I'll complain and bitch about it and find someway to MAKE you change it for me. I deeply appreciate my PRIVILEGES on HF because I worked hard to get them. I guess the next step is 4 watts RMS and 12 watts PEP and Channelize the bands and of course NO TESTING!!!! God forbid we should ask them to take a test.. Dan N0FQN "Mark Russo" wrote in message ... One of these below will get you there... Seems to me that they should bump up the current General class to Advanced class. This way people who worked hard to get to General will not be locked in with the no code folks. That seems fair?. http://www.remote.arrl.org/news/stor.../01/19/1/?nc=1 Click he ARRLWeb: ARRL to Propose New Entry-Level License, Code-Free HF Access |
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![]() Helmut wrote: nice list, ergo and, BTW, I am NOT from the USA, I am a HAM since 1990, CALLSIGNS OE8SOQ and DD9XX, what are you guys going to do, if you hear a station from lets say VK, GB, DL, HB9, and many others, among them rare DX countries? First thing to ask wether or not they did pass the CW Test? and then not continuing the QSO?? Would this be polite? hamlike? How would your reaction be if some DX ham offends you like that? The proposed changes in the ARRL paper saying, that your FCC will grant lifetime credit for CW all previous licenced novices and techs. All techs will have general privileges. Will you stop working them on the bands? Will you resist to give them the point for ten-ten, WAS or whatever they are chasing? Will you first go to buckmaster or QRZ and look up the callsign to make shure not to talk to a NON-CW TESTED? This looks like to me as it was down the years in your country when no white one would have shook hands with a black man, or driven on the same bus. It is just RASISM. Will you let the best hobby in the world go down the sewer pipe just for beeing too proud of taking the CW test some time ago? I think, that there is no question about the historical weight of CW for radio comunications worldwide. Nowadays it has no more commercial nor official impact. It seems to me, that it is the same as knowing how to write on one of those old TRIUMPH Typwriters or handle one of those old TTY monsters whith the punched paperstrip. It is a great handycraft to be able to do this, but is is no more neccesary to learn how to write on one of those old machines. Ask someone who grew up with the PC keybord to do this - what will happen? In my homecountry, Austria, they dropped the requirements for CW test end of last year. BUT they stated in that law, that CW test can be required by the applicants in future, as long as the authority can supply CW-EXAMINERS. BTW, the former nocode Test was the same as for HF, just no CW. So every Austrian licencee is tested like an EXTRA in the US, exept the CW. And this is the same in all of the EUROPEAN countries. Just my half EURO worth Helmut OE8SOQ Hi, Helmut For me it is not about learning CW. Looking back the history of ham radio, I am wondering about the quality of today's operators. Majority of new ones are just a bunch of glorified CB'ers. That's where my beef is. Dropping CW requirement is fine with me. And written test is a joke. Most don't even know which way current flows in a diode or how to solder. I have better idea, just sell the licences with full previledge for 1000.00 each to anyone. Getting driver's licence is harder than getting a ham ticket now. 73, Tony, VE6CGX |
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whine
"Tony Hwang" wrote in message news:21xPb.205544$JQ1.46984@pd7tw1no... Helmut wrote: nice list, ergo and, BTW, I am NOT from the USA, I am a HAM since 1990, CALLSIGNS OE8SOQ and DD9XX, what are you guys going to do, if you hear a station from lets say VK, GB, DL, HB9, and many others, among them rare DX countries? First thing to ask wether or not they did pass the CW Test? and then not continuing the QSO?? Would this be polite? hamlike? How would your reaction be if some DX ham offends you like that? The proposed changes in the ARRL paper saying, that your FCC will grant lifetime credit for CW all previous licenced novices and techs. All techs will have general privileges. Will you stop working them on the bands? Will you resist to give them the point for ten-ten, WAS or whatever they are chasing? Will you first go to buckmaster or QRZ and look up the callsign to make shure not to talk to a NON-CW TESTED? This looks like to me as it was down the years in your country when no white one would have shook hands with a black man, or driven on the same bus. It is just RASISM. Will you let the best hobby in the world go down the sewer pipe just for beeing too proud of taking the CW test some time ago? I think, that there is no question about the historical weight of CW for radio comunications worldwide. Nowadays it has no more commercial nor official impact. It seems to me, that it is the same as knowing how to write on one of those old TRIUMPH Typwriters or handle one of those old TTY monsters whith the punched paperstrip. It is a great handycraft to be able to do this, but is is no more neccesary to learn how to write on one of those old machines. Ask someone who grew up with the PC keybord to do this - what will happen? In my homecountry, Austria, they dropped the requirements for CW test end of last year. BUT they stated in that law, that CW test can be required by the applicants in future, as long as the authority can supply CW-EXAMINERS. BTW, the former nocode Test was the same as for HF, just no CW. So every Austrian licencee is tested like an EXTRA in the US, exept the CW. And this is the same in all of the EUROPEAN countries. Just my half EURO worth Helmut OE8SOQ Hi, Helmut For me it is not about learning CW. Looking back the history of ham radio, I am wondering about the quality of today's operators. Majority of new ones are just a bunch of glorified CB'ers. That's where my beef is. Dropping CW requirement is fine with me. And written test is a joke. Most don't even know which way current flows in a diode or how to solder. I have better idea, just sell the licences with full previledge for 1000.00 each to anyone. Getting driver's licence is harder than getting a ham ticket now. 73, Tony, VE6CGX |
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As it damn well should be...it's much easier to get killed by a bad driver
than by sloppy CW. "Tony Hwang" wrote in message news:21xPb.205544$JQ1.46984@pd7tw1no... Getting driver's licence is harder than getting a ham ticket now. 73, Tony, VE6CGX |
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thank you sir
73 "Helmut" wrote in message ... nice list, ergo and, BTW, I am NOT from the USA, I am a HAM since 1990, CALLSIGNS OE8SOQ and DD9XX, what are you guys going to do, if you hear a station from lets say VK, GB, DL, HB9, and many others, among them rare DX countries? First thing to ask wether or not they did pass the CW Test? and then not continuing the QSO?? Would this be polite? hamlike? How would your reaction be if some DX ham offends you like that? The proposed changes in the ARRL paper saying, that your FCC will grant lifetime credit for CW all previous licenced novices and techs. All techs will have general privileges. Will you stop working them on the bands? Will you resist to give them the point for ten-ten, WAS or whatever they are chasing? Will you first go to buckmaster or QRZ and look up the callsign to make shure not to talk to a NON-CW TESTED? This looks like to me as it was down the years in your country when no white one would have shook hands with a black man, or driven on the same bus. It is just RASISM. Will you let the best hobby in the world go down the sewer pipe just for beeing too proud of taking the CW test some time ago? I think, that there is no question about the historical weight of CW for radio comunications worldwide. Nowadays it has no more commercial nor official impact. It seems to me, that it is the same as knowing how to write on one of those old TRIUMPH Typwriters or handle one of those old TTY monsters whith the punched paperstrip. It is a great handycraft to be able to do this, but is is no more neccesary to learn how to write on one of those old machines. Ask someone who grew up with the PC keybord to do this - what will happen? In my homecountry, Austria, they dropped the requirements for CW test end of last year. BUT they stated in that law, that CW test can be required by the applicants in future, as long as the authority can supply CW-EXAMINERS. BTW, the former nocode Test was the same as for HF, just no CW. So every Austrian licencee is tested like an EXTRA in the US, exept the CW. And this is the same in all of the EUROPEAN countries. Just my half EURO worth Helmut OE8SOQ "ergo" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:0mlPb.93901$5V2.278472@attbi_s53... Ham 12 years ACS 2nd leader 46 states on 6meter worked mir SS 100's of stations on sats control opp 7 repeaters donate much time and equiptment to fire stations etc nothing nice to say? you STFU what is an STFU?? more hams=more emergency people "Steve Zodiac" wrote in message ... hey ergo, it is "poor baby, here IS a towel. Are you from the USA?? Are you a ham? Go back to CB you keyclown. Nothing nice to say? shut up! ergo wrote: poor baby here is towel "Dan Mattingly N0FQN" wrote in message ... Just what we need. Lazy belly aching people who want something for nothing. They'll get the HF bands and not appreciate what they have becuase they didn't have to work for it. Just like everything else in this country. Make it conveient or I'll complain and bitch about it and find someway to MAKE you change it for me. I deeply appreciate my PRIVILEGES on HF because I worked hard to get them. I guess the next step is 4 watts RMS and 12 watts PEP and Channelize the bands and of course NO TESTING!!!! God forbid we should ask them to take a test.. Dan N0FQN "Mark Russo" wrote in message ... One of these below will get you there... Seems to me that they should bump up the current General class to Advanced class. This way people who worked hard to get to General will not be locked in with the no code folks. That seems fair?. http://www.remote.arrl.org/news/stor.../01/19/1/?nc=1 Click he ARRLWeb: ARRL to Propose New Entry-Level License, Code-Free HF Access |
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![]() "Helmut" wrote in message ... ...... what are you guys going to do, if you hear a station from lets say VK, GB, DL, HB9, and many others, among them rare DX countries? First thing to ask wether or not they did pass the CW Test? and then not continuing the QSO?? Would this be polite? hamlike? How would your reaction be if some DX ham offends you like that? The point is not that wanting qualified operators to have CW or any other radio-related skill is done for any reason of elitism, it is that it USED to take much effort to EARN a license. Now you can get the answers to memorize for a few (far too few) questions and "earn" a license with only a few days of "study". Those of us who took the exams at the FCC offices without any chance of helpful hints, winks or nudges by those giving the exam do not like seeing all our efforts wasted. I had a lot of trouble and spent many, many hours studying to pass the 20 WPM test. I don't even like CW operation very much. But I was glad I spent the time because it really meant something to pass the tests. Now, I realize that it will have been a WASTED EFFORT if this new plan goes through since I would have had extra privileges anyway. 10-4 good buddy, I guess I might as well sell my linears at the nearest truck stop. ---- Brian |
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![]() The point is not that wanting qualified operators to have CW or any other radio-related skill is done for any reason of elitism, it is that it USED to take much effort to EARN a license. portion snipped But I was glad I spent the time because it really meant something to pass the tests. Now, I realize that it will have been a WASTED EFFORT if this new plan goes through since I would have had extra privileges anyway. Brian, I understand your sentiment as I partly feel the same way, but from what you have said above, it does appear that you place perhaps a bit more value in your accomplishment in getting the license, and maybe a bit too little in just enjoying the hobby? Ed WB6SAT |
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