In the USA we can blame that on the replacement of the official FCC examination system with the Volunteer Examiner program and the change of the ARRL from a technical organization for technical people (Hams) to an organization pushing easy license acquisition to aid manufacturers in selling more ham gear and thus increasing the income of the ARRL.
73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE On Tue, 31 May 2011 07:41:15 +0100, David Pratt <[email protected]> wrote: >Very true, Ron, but the problem these days is that many of today's >brains seem incapable of decoding CW ;-( > >73 de David G4DMP > >In a recent message, Ron D'Eau Claire <[email protected]> writes >> >>It's even more amazing how far 0.5 watts can be heard and information >>exchanged using human brains as the encoder/decoder software. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
