KC8GXW wrote:
What makes a person a real ham?

Being cured and smoked over a real hickory wood fire....

Is it doing more then 5 wpm code?

8.5 wpm, if my numbers are correct.

Is it being accepted by certain other hams?

Who on earth would care about that?

Could it be the date they were first licensed, or maybe the class of
license they hold now?

Only people who were licensed on February 15th, 1955 are real hams. All
others are a sham.

Can a person climb to Extra with today's test and be considered a real ham?

You have to take the tests administered in 1932.


Is yodoc aka K3LT a real ham, or the one to determine who is a real ham?

Good lord, he hasn't posted here in a long time, why bring Larry into
the mix?


Can somebody who gets into amateur radio today with the "give away
license" ever be considered a real ham?

You don't know the half of it! I was forced at gunpoint to take the
ridiculously easy tests available today. I wanted to take an older test,
but the bleary eyed VE, cocked the trigger on his 45, and I knew it was
to either become a nickel extra, or die!


Does getting a vanity license that is an older call such as K8*** or
WD8*** make you a real ham?

Hey! I'm thinking about getting a Vanity. Be nice!


I didn't take the free upgrade to general, so would this make me a cb'er
or no coder as the toad says?

Everyone is a CB'er.

I'm not being a troll, I would really like to know the answers to this!

Hey, if you have to ask.......... 8^)


- Mike KB3EIA -