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In article . net,
says... Papa Dog wrote in : In article . net, says... Phil Wheeler wrote in : AC7PN wrote: Slow Code wrote: Or is it like talking to someone on CB? SC The answer is "yes it is a real contact" and so far as you were communicating with some one using a radio it also is "like talking to someone on CB." Dude, your arrogance is showing. I would have said ignorance ![]() 73, Phil W7OX Don't tell me You want to dumb down ham radio now as well. Where have all the communicators gone? SC Any 12 year old can learn code in 2 weeks. Getting rid of it would not dumb down Ham radio at all. Code is a good thing to know. Whether you use it or not is a personal preference. I think programming you're own software to send code yourself and building your own radio is a lot more technical than learning code. 73 Chris But people don't want to be skilled at anything anymore. They don't want to make an effort to learn CW, they may not make an effort to learn other things to advance themselves technically either. SC If a 12 year old can learn it I don't consider it much of a technical skill. Nothing at all technical about CW. Building a transmitter, now that takes somw technical know how. Chris |
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Papa Dog wrote in
: In article et, says... Papa Dog wrote in : In article . net, says... Thanks for posting that chuck. I've never broken any of those on the air or on usenet. Maybe now Markie and everyone else will see why CW is important. Thanks again and Keep up the good work. 73 de Slow Code You need to read them again SC. You break them daily on usenet. You're not considerate. You're down right unfriendly to some and You're about unprogressive as they come. 73 Chris You think that's bad? Wait until HF sounds 11 meters and you can't find a decent contact anywhere. You'll see I was right. I crawled out of my hole around restructuring time. Then the ARRL and FCC screwed ham radio. I went back in my hole again. Now the FCC and it appears with the blessings of the ARRL is planning to toss CW all together. I come out of my hole to fight for the integrity of ham radio once again, but when the R&O comes out eliminating CW, I'll crawl back into my hole again. Leaving you and everyone else the problem of trying to deal with poor behavior and operating practice on the bands. The result of dumbing down licensing. Outcome based education doesn't work, what makes you think outcome based licensing will? SC You still won't acknowledge your poor behavior that really hurts your cause. Chris You choosing to disagree with a pro-coder doesn't constitute poor behavior on my part. How's your code practice coming along? Are you going to stick with it, or are you going to be one of them un-skilled hams. SC |
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Papa Dog wrote in
: In article . net, says... Papa Dog wrote in : In article . net, says... Phil Wheeler wrote in : AC7PN wrote: Slow Code wrote: Or is it like talking to someone on CB? SC The answer is "yes it is a real contact" and so far as you were communicating with some one using a radio it also is "like talking to someone on CB." Dude, your arrogance is showing. I would have said ignorance ![]() 73, Phil W7OX Don't tell me You want to dumb down ham radio now as well. Where have all the communicators gone? SC Any 12 year old can learn code in 2 weeks. Getting rid of it would not dumb down Ham radio at all. Code is a good thing to know. Whether you use it or not is a personal preference. I think programming you're own software to send code yourself and building your own radio is a lot more technical than learning code. 73 Chris But people don't want to be skilled at anything anymore. They don't want to make an effort to learn CW, they may not make an effort to learn other things to advance themselves technically either. SC If a 12 year old can learn it I don't consider it much of a technical skill. Nothing at all technical about CW. Building a transmitter, now that takes somw technical know how. Chris Well if it's not a problem to learn, let's keep the requirement and raise it to 13WPM. It's a bit boring doing code at 5 words per minute, and at 13 WPM you can copy someones call for help almost three times as fast. SC |
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![]() No kids...this whole code thing and the watering down of the test is simply a matter dividing and conquering so "they" can come in and tell us that our numbers don't justify the spectrum. Then...pfssssst!!!...there goes one band after another. If any of the no coders had any balls they'd be asking the fcc for real testing and redevelop the hobby into what it used to be instead of the inane weekend contesting and buffoons sitting there are sideband comparing which rigs have the most features. Nah, the spectrum has moved up to SHF, no one in govt or industry gives a rat's ass about the spectrum below 30 MHz. [Thanks for the cross posting. I need the publicity] ![]() -- god bless http://www.Hello-Radio.Com http://home.xandros.com/products/home/home_edition.html |
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![]() "Slow Code" wrote in message ink.net... Papa Dog wrote in : In article . net, says... Papa Dog wrote in : In article . net, says... Phil Wheeler wrote in : AC7PN wrote: Slow Code wrote: Or is it like talking to someone on CB? SC The answer is "yes it is a real contact" and so far as you were communicating with some one using a radio it also is "like talking to someone on CB." Dude, your arrogance is showing. I would have said ignorance ![]() 73, Phil W7OX Don't tell me You want to dumb down ham radio now as well. Where have all the communicators gone? SC Any 12 year old can learn code in 2 weeks. Getting rid of it would not dumb down Ham radio at all. Code is a good thing to know. Whether you use it or not is a personal preference. I think programming you're own software to send code yourself and building your own radio is a lot more technical than learning code. 73 Chris But people don't want to be skilled at anything anymore. They don't want to make an effort to learn CW, they may not make an effort to learn other things to advance themselves technically either. SC If a 12 year old can learn it I don't consider it much of a technical skill. Nothing at all technical about CW. Building a transmitter, now that takes somw technical know how. Chris Well if it's not a problem to learn, let's keep the requirement and raise it to 13WPM. It's a bit boring doing code at 5 words per minute, and at 13 WPM you can copy someones call for help almost three times as fast. SC Name one real/valid/probable scenario for this. Let me guess, you crash land on the moon, have only a D-cell battery, some wire, a butter knife, happen to find some crystals, some silicon, somehow beyond your knowledge or abilities, manage to build a transmitter, and send your SOS back to Earth. Is that about right? Nah, you'd die trying to make it iambic. |
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God Bless you too, but don't believe the statement below for an instant!
Nah, the spectrum has moved up to SHF, no one in govt or industry gives a rat's ass about the spectrum below 30 MHz. [Thanks for the cross posting. I need the publicity] ![]() -- god bless |
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God Bless you too, but don't believe the statement below for an instant! Nah, the spectrum has moved up to SHF, no one in govt or industry gives a rat's ass about the spectrum below 30 MHz. Top posting makes this very confusing. However, I am convinced that nobody in industry or at the FCC cares about anything other than optimizing short-term revenue. The notion of optimizing spectrum use for the greatest good went out with the Carter administration. This is one of the greatest tragedies of our time in my opinion. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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