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An apparently bored-to-death Plod's Conscience wrote:
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. They *can* construct it, but I don't know even one that does. 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. Same applies to many CB operators. 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 Wow. You actually REPAIR the modern processor-SMD-memory-menu-submenu-miniature-components crap we have now? 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; 20 years ago, yes. Nowadays, all those people don't bother about placing an antenna, they just use MSN messenger. What's left on CB today are people that love radio. they are free with rather silly personal insults; You should listen to some of our Dutch 2-meter repeaters. And you should listen to yourself when you talk about CB operators. * lots of crap cut out * 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. Your views are obscured by ignorance. I know many CB operators who are appealed more by technology than all those HAM's who, after passing their exam, never touched a soldering iron in their life anymore. * Lots of insults cut out * Fortunately, we have a different view on CB here in Holland. One channel on CB is even an official VRZA home frequency, where official HAMs and CB operators come together to talk about their hobby. The result: they attend our meetings and start to study for the 'real' HAM status. Don't repell them, attract them. Hans (PD0AC), Almere, the Netherlands |
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