Charles,
I couldn´t agree with you more. This is why I sometimes think
about giving up ham radio. It is becoming more and more silly
for every day that goes by.
73 Jim SM2EKM
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Charles Harpole wrote:
Every now and then, I read every message placed
on several ham radio reflectors. I am astonished at
1. the high level of detail that some hams worry about and
2. the low level of basic knowledge that the ham test should
have caught and finally
3. the seeming unwillingness to just go ahead and try something
instead of asking "permission" from "those who know more" (see
the quote marks?).
HAM radio: in the golden days of the 1956 sunspot peak, hams threw
wires in trees, loaded up metal drain downspouts, ran something until
it smoked and then wired in something of higher capacity and ran it
again. In those days, I never hrd anyone asking if something will
work perfectly (after extensive computer modeling, etc.-- yes, I know there
were no home computers then) or if some hot shot op already had the
thing under discussion.
Then, hams just did it. I long for those days, so lacking a time machine,
I will just again use the delete function more often. 73
Charles Harpole
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