What is Ham Radio?

(Nothing whatsoever to do with Leigh Preece M5GWH
and his infantile Childish Broadcasts (CB), that's
for sure!)

Ham Radio is a technical pursuit for those who
are interested in the science of radio wave
propagation and who are also interested in the
way that their radios function. It has a long-standing
tradition of providing a source of engineers who
are born naturals.

Ham Radio awakens in its aficionados a whole-life
fascination with all things technical and gives
an all-abiding curiosity to improve one's scientific
knowledge. It's a great swimming pool, please dive in!

This excitement causes a wish to share the experience
with ones fellow man, and shows itself in the
gentlemanly traditions of Ham Radio.

Radio Hams are in a unique privileged position in that
they can construct and operate their own equipment! No-one
else has this privilege. Users, such as broadcasters,
the po lice and armed farces, CBers and mobile phone
users have to purchase ready-made gear. Manufacturers
are not licensed to operate their gear. Radio Hams
are qualified to design, build and then
operate their own pieces of equipment. They do this
with gusto, and also repair and modify their own
equipment. This is a privilege well worth the effort
to gain, and one to be jealously guarded.

The excitement that drives a Radio Ham starts with
relatively simple technologies at first, perhaps making
his own Wimshurst machine and primary cells. Small pieces
of test equipment follow, possibly multimeters and signal
generators. Then comes receivers and transmitters. It is with
the latter that communication with like-minded technically
motivated people takes off. The scope for technical
development grows with the years
and now encompasses DSP and DDS. There is also a great deal
of excitement in the areas of computer programming to
be learnt and applied.

The technical excitement motivates Radio Hams to compete
with each other to determine who has designed and manufactured
the best-quality station. This competitiveness is found in DXing,
competitions and fox-hunts.

-----OOOOO----

However, beware! A Ham Radio licence is such a
desirable thing to have that there are large
numbers of people who wish to be thought of
as Radio Hams when, in fact, they are nothing
of the kind! Usually such people are a
variation of the CB Radio hobbyist; they buy their
radios off the shelf and send them back to be
repaired; they are not interested in technical discussion
and sneer at those who are; they have no idea how
their radios work inside and have no wish to find out;
they are free with rather silly personal insults;
they have not satisfied any technical qualification
and their licences prevent the use of
self-designed-and-built equipment.

These CB types engage in the competitive activities
with their Cheque-Book-purchased off-the-shelf radios
in a forlorn effort to prove that they are Radio Hams.

No _REAL_ Radio Hams are deceived by such people!

-----ooooo-----

One infallible way to disambiguate the CB Radio Hobbyist
from the _REAL_ Radio Ham is to solicit their view of the
difference between CB Radio and Ham Radio. A Radio Ham will
perceive Ham Radio to be a technical pursuit and will
perceive CB Radio to be a social communications facility
no different in essence to a land-line telephone or a
GSM mobile in the hands of a 6-year-old. Thus a Radio Ham
could also hold a CB licence safe in the knowledge that
such a licence says no more about him than having a land-line
telephone, whilst continuing to regard Ham Radio as a separate
technical pursuit.

A CB Radio hobbyist, on the other hand, sees no difference between
a Ham Radio licence and a CB Radio licence. To him, they are
sisters-under-the-skin. Wrongly, the CB Radio Hobbyist then
tries to classify himself as the equal of the Radio
Ham when, in fact, he is nothing of the kind. A sure sign of
a CB Radio hobbyist is if he holds, or has ever held, a licence
issued under the gangrenous degeneration that is the
M3/CB Fools' Licence scheme.

-----ooooo-----

One group of people who claim to be of the standard of
Radio Hams but who are in reality nothing more than an
apology for the failure of a CBer are those class B
licensees who falsely proclaimed that they were against
the use of a Morse Test to control access to the HF
bands, until, that is, a test was introduced at their
intellectual level, the intellectual level of 6-year-olds.

6 year-olds simply lack the mathematical tool kit to
enable them to handle even the simplest algebraic manipulation
for Ohm's Law and thus, the disgraceful Class Ber's in
the aforementioned category are not Radio Hams by any stretch
of the imagination!

Remember - A sure sign of a CB Radio hobbyist is if he holds,
or has ever held, a licence issued under the gangrenous
degeneration that is the M3/CB Fools' Licence scheme!

"Polymath" wrote in message
ups.com...

Coming to Llandudno, Gareth? Will you be eavesdropping in, on my private
conversations again?

You really are a stupid boy!

tox

Cross-posted groups somehow lost.

Must pay better attention!

Polymath wrote:
Au contraire!.....

"simply leaving the newsgroup to you and your
silly 'Weekly FAQ' "

"Maybe you should look up the structure and convention of an internet
FAQ"

If you think that you are a normal person (I have my doubts
thereto) then, yes, do put it on your website.

Leigh Preece wrote:
(Nothing whatsoever to do with Leigh Preece M5GWH
and his infantile Childish Broadcasts (CB), that's
for sure!)

Not prompted by me at all.

Seems it's now becoming twice weekly.

Most normal people would put this onto their own website by now.

Take anything it contains at face value.

Make up your own mind as to what is fact and what is not.

Only then will you understand.

"Polymath" wrote in message
ups.com...
What is Ham Radio?

Please enlighten us as to who frequently asks this question?

Is it one of the voices in your head, because I see absolutely NO-ONE else
asking it in the groups that you choose to post your weakly (spelling
intentional) rant!

You complain about the lack of gentlemanly conduct, yet you incessantly post
this insulting garbage, which you KNOW is unwelcome in all of the groups you
inflict it upon. You really are a sociopathic imbecile, aren't you? Do grow
up and learn how to behave youself properly, you pathetic little man.

Mr. E wrote:
You really are a sociopathic imbecile, aren't you? Do grow
up and learn how to behave youself properly, you pathetic little man.

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Polymathazine is a potent psychobabble agent and increased pulse rate
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moped; deep throat; hysterical laughing, genital rash, muscle spasms of
face, neck, or arse; difficulty swallowing his crap; spunk gurning and
bubbling; mask-like face; tremors of hands; restlessness; tension in
legs or weakness of arms or legs; sonic diarrhoea and frequent nightmares.

Dr Poos

--
vy 73 de Conrad Poos

"Ich bin ein radio amateur"