RadioBanter - View Single Post - 05-235

December 2nd 05, 01:26 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:
From: an old friend on Nov 28, 2:42 pm

wrote:
wrote:
From: on Nov 26, 4:11 pm
wrote:
From: on Fri, Nov 25 2005 4:26 pm
wrote:

I opt NOT to bother with CB radio since it is not to my needs
in communicating anything by radio. The little two-way radio
terminal called a "cell phone" serves both me and my wife very
adequately in mobile communications needs.

You're quite right, sir. A cell phone meets your needs. You needn't
bother with CB or amateur radio.

My old Johnson...still works...

That's nice.

Jimmy, who never worked IN the FCC (and will never do so),
thinks that just having an amateur license means he had
"something to do with amateur radio regulations." :-)

Will you ever work IN the FCC, Len?

Morse Code wasn't "dying" back then and it isn't "dying" now - in
amateur radio, anyway.

not what I hear

You have to give Jimmy some slack, Mark. Since his receiver
can't pick up anything outside the "low end" of HF ham bands,
he thinks HF is still "alive with the sounds of morse code"
(as if Julie Andrews were singing it on top of a hill).

Does your venerable Icom receiver still hit the bottom end of the HF ham
bands, Leonard? You must think morse code is dead, poor morse is dead
(as if Gordon McRae were singing it out by the corral).

Dave K8MN