On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:31:44 +0200
i8cvs domenico.i8...@tin.it wrote:
If the US has dumbed down the radio amateurs license requirements with
less technical knowledge than before when the Morse Code and many more
technical requirements were mandatory than the same problem apply to
Amateur
Words of Wisdom!
Life is too short to waste it in the past. Unfortunately, too many are
trapped in their good old days mentality. What a pitty and waste.
Stefan, VE4NSA
As in any society there is always conflicting relationship between ages group.
For one some are too old and they are
Yes! Let's don't overlook the fact that designing and building an
EasySat CubeSat also gives us the opportunity to explore, learn, and try
out new technologies that can be later used for higher satellites when
the opportunity comes, and expanded functionality on LEOs as well. I
don't think
Jerry,
On Oct 23, 2011, at 10:44 AM, N0JY wrote:
Yes! Let's don't overlook the fact that designing and building an EasySat
CubeSat also gives us the opportunity to explore, learn, and try out new
technologies that can be later used for higher satellites when the
opportunity comes, and
All in the name of political correctness the FCC in all their
(lack) of wisdom did away with the requirement of the FCC
1st or 2nd class licence to work at a TV or AM FM radio station
and repair a 2 way radio. As well as dumb-ing down the ham service.
10-4 ?
The only thing it did for folks like
On Oct 23, 2011, at 11:36 AM, John Becker wrote:
There just is no replacement for knowledge.
And I don't think anybody here is debating that very fact. But it's about how
one does acquire said knowledge.
Most of what I know I learned either by making mistakes, listening to great
folks who
And luckily there aren't too many people who are so full of themselves and view
themselves as
superior just because they have been in the hobby for so long. How dare newer
and god forbid
younger people come into your kingdom and claim a spot by virtue of passing a
test that not by
their fault
I hate to see this old horse beaten again but as a relatively new ham, and
new is a relative term, I passed the test the VE Team gave me. I did not
petition the FCC to do anything to make things easier or harder for me. Does
that mean I'm an idiot? I hope not. I went to my first symposium NOT as
I have to laugh whenever I hear that the Ham License was dumbed down.
Morse Code requires a skill (which I confess I lack), not knowledge.
--
Joe Leikhim
K4SAT
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Here's the funny thing: every time I encounter an operator (and let's call them
just that) especially on HF with poor
operating practice, which is usually nailed on the new no code crop of hams, I
find them to be Extra license holders
that are way beyond my age which means they had to pass the
I just wish a could have had a free pass when I went after the
1st class radio telephone back in 1967.
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, October 22, 2011 1:39 PM
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: knowledge required
I just wish a could have had a free pass when I went after the
1st class radio telephone back in 1967.
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: knowledge required
I just wish a could have had a free pass when I went after the
1st class radio telephone back in 1967.
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Here's a quick example to show how isolated that view is btw. I changed it up a
bit.
-- SNIP --
Just give up on trying to explain to some of these drivers! They will never
understand what you, Peter and others on here are talking about...
The way the US has dumbed down the drivers license
Hi Michael,
If for driver you mean a taxi driver or someone driving a car than the way
the US has dumbed down the drivers license requirements can produce more
accidents than before.
If the US has dumbed down the radio amateurs license requirements with
less technical knowledge than before when
Whats with these kids today, they can't drive a car unless it has automatic transmission.
Don't get me going about these wimps and their paddle shifters. If you can't
drive stick shift and double clutch(without synchromesh), you should just stay home!
-- SNIP--
Just give up on trying to
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Whats with these kids today, they can't drive a car unless it has automatic
transmission. Don't get me going about these wimps and their paddle
shifters. If you can't drive stick shift and double clutch(without
synchromesh), you should just stay home!
-- SNIP--
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