Oops - forgot to cross-post to our friends in Yankland.....

11 years of posting under Outlook Express and similar
packages (Turnpike, DIS) mean dissimilar habits!

Polymath wrote:
What is Ham Radio?

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.

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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!

Polymath wrote:
Oops - forgot to cross-post to our friends in Yankland.....

11 years of posting under Outlook Express and similar
packages (Turnpike, DIS) mean dissimilar habits!

Turnpike and Demon Internet... even then you were bonkers... what was your
Demon account name? Oh yes, cemetery.demon.co.uk

What a bizarre choice! Why did you choose this?
--
huLLy
Mobile phone 07976 123278
ICQ 136-987-925

"huLLy" wrote:

: Polymath wrote:
: Oops - forgot to cross-post to our friends in Yankland.....
:
: 11 years of posting under Outlook Express and similar
: packages (Turnpike, DIS) mean dissimilar habits!
:
: Turnpike and Demon Internet... even then you were bonkers... what was your
: Demon account name? Oh yes, cemetery.demon.co.uk
:
: What a bizarre choice! Why did you choose this?

so nice of you to change your posting name to something else other than
that of anothers registered callsign.

its a pity you dont have the courage to put your own callsign in, in the
same way that you could abuse anothers callsign.

I wonder why I get the impression that
THE INCURABLE CBER is obsessed with me to
a degree that borders on mental derangement?

There's a simpler way for him to deal with
his own deep-seated inadequacy, and that is to
tackle and then pass a 12 WPM Morse Test, and
then to go on and build his own TX!

That way he won't have to keep sucking up to me.

ZZZZPK wrote:
"huLLy" wrote:

: Polymath wrote:
: Oops - forgot to cross-post to our friends in Yankland.....
:
: 11 years of posting under Outlook Express and similar
: packages (Turnpike, DIS) mean dissimilar habits!
:
: Turnpike and Demon Internet... even then you were bonkers... what was your
: Demon account name? Oh yes, cemetery.demon.co.uk
:
: What a bizarre choice! Why did you choose this?

so nice of you to change your posting name to something else other than
that of anothers registered callsign.

its a pity you dont have the courage to put your own callsign in, in the
same way that you could abuse anothers callsign.

Perhaps THE INCURABLE CBER and MRS.NUGATORY
are one and the same!

Polymath wrote:
I wonder why I get the impression that
THE INCURABLE CBER is obsessed with me to
a degree that borders on mental derangement?

Polymath wrote:

That way he won't have to keep sucking up to me.


You'd like that, wouldn't you?
--
huLLy
Mobile phone 07976 123278
ICQ 136-987-925

Polymath wrote:
I wonder why I get the impression that
THE INCURABLE CBER is obsessed with me to
a degree that borders on mental derangement?

There's a simpler way for him to deal with
his own deep-seated inadequacy, and that is to
tackle and then pass a 12 WPM Morse Test, and
then to go on and build his own TX!

gee how would help anybody? the tranmitter might

"Polymath" wrote in message
oups.com...
There's a simpler way for him to deal with
his own deep-seated inadequacy, and that is to
tackle and then pass a 12 WPM Morse Test, and
then to go on and build his own TX!

Gareth, after 10 years of slow learning you passed the Morse test, rumour
has it you once even built a "oner". You suffer from social inadequacy
almost as much as we suffer from your social inadequacy.

Steve H