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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
From: Al Klein on Wed, Aug 30 2006 12:02 pm
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:18:12 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell Al Klein said: Eliminating a requirement is dumbing things down. But no one would expect you to be able to understand that. Well, let me ask, from the point of view of a potential noob to the hobby. What use is the code requirements? In lieu of any other meaningful test (and there currently is none), it shows a willingness to put in a minimum amount of effort. Gotta love your argument "technique," Big Al...it's your way or the highway...! :-) But, given that many professional people like myself are stretched for time, what good does all the licensing and code requirements do for you besides build up boundries to doing something new and fun? You might ask that about anything. Given that insert group here like myself are stretched for time, what do all the requirements for insert something here do for anyone? Poor Big Al...he must have had a TERRIBLE time learning to be an amateur when he was only Lil Al... :-) I'm in a pretty technical field, and I study to keep up in that field everyday, the last thing I want to do, is have to spend my weekends studying to talk on a radio. So don't. Buy a CB, FRS or GMRS radio and talk all you like. Those are the services created for folks who just want to talk on the radio. Seems like that's all the extras and generals I hear on HF doing...just talking on the radio... :-) If less stringent requirements were there, I could easily afford the tools of the trade, and would like to just jump in and start working with a ham setup. I'm particularly interested in exploring the amateur radio/computer connections. You won't like that - you'll have to devote a lot of your precious time to learning things - electronics, both theoretical and practical, programming, reading a waterfall display, keeping your signal distortion-free ... You can't just plug a radio into a computer and start using them. Digital communications doesn't work if you do it that way. No? You mean you can't buy a rig from HRO, unbox it, and connect it, and have it work right away? :-) There's several transceivers on the market that DO that, Big Al. Have you kept up with radio technology since Spark was outlawed? Can you give me valid reasons as to what useful purpose in today's age they serve? No, since someone who wants instant gratification can't be bothered to listen to why that's the wrong way to do something. Your time is probably much to valuable to spend it learning enough to understand why you can't learn enough in an instant. Go memorize some test answers, get a code-free tech, hook your computer up to your radio and, in 6 months, you'll have your radio up for sale on eBay, because "it doesn't really work". Is eBay where you sold your radios, Big Al? :-) Hey, Big Al, have you written the QPC yet about those simple, easy-to-memorize questions on writtens? No? Why not? Have you written the FCC yet about the anyone-can-get-a-ham- license and tell 'em "what for?" [it's easy to submit a petition to get back to them good ol days you want, FCC tells you the procedure on their website] No? Why not? Maybe you ought to write your congressperson, then. Tell THEM that US amateur radio testing has gone down (your imaginative) toilet and DEMAND that something be DOME about it! You sure are ANGRY about things, Big Al. Maybe you need some tranquilizers or mental therapy? No, you say? Okay, then I'll just put you down in the Cranky Old Coot category. Here, have a Foxtrot Uniform with my best wishes... :-) |
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