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- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 04:30:14 PST
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- Subject: Ham-Policy Digest V94 #40
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- Ham-Policy Digest Sat, 5 Feb 94 Volume 94 : Issue 40
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- Today's Topics:
- I just HAD to. WAS: The 10-meters band - No CW required ?
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- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 22:41:08 GMT
- From: spool.mu.edu!olivea!charnel!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn@munnari.oz.au
- Subject: I just HAD to. WAS: The 10-meters band - No CW required ?
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
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- In article <syR9gc1w165w@mystis.wariat.org> dan@mystis.wariat.org (Dan Pickersgill N8PKV) writes:
- >From: dan@mystis.wariat.org (Dan Pickersgill N8PKV)
- >Subject: Re: I just HAD to. WAS: The 10-meters band - No CW required ?
- >Keywords: CW
- >Date: Fri, 04 Feb 94 16:24:03 EST
-
-
- >>
- >> What I wanted to say Dan is I'm getting sick of all the crying about how
- >> unfair it is to have a requirement to know CW to use SSB. The FCC in all thei
- >> infinite wisdom have allocated 11 meters SSB to those who DO NOT wish to
- >> spend the time learning morse code.
-
- >11 Meters is NOT a ham band and if you refer to the CB spectrum, that
- >was and is NOT intended for long distance communication. Are you
- >suggesting that the best thing to do is not work to change the rules
- >within the law but BREAK THE LAW?
-
- >(CW Lid filter in action.)
-
- >> I work CW on the air almost every night.
- >> My passing a 5wpm test has given me the privilege to use 200khz of the
- >> spectrum below 50Mhz for SSB. I earned that privilege and
- >> everybody who went before me earned that privilege.
-
- >I had to do it so you have to do it dispite the FACT that it isn't
- >relevent.
-
- >> Too Many people in this
- >> world want everything given to them. I did not go to Medical School but do I
- >> have the right to cry about the fact that I'm not earning $100k plus.
-
- >Where is it written that one must EARN an amateur radio license. You
- >must pass the required tests to prove that you have skills and knowleage
- >relevent to what you will be doing. To protect yourself and others.
- >Hazing (requiring things not applicible just to 'earn' it) is not
- >acceptable to some. And not the reason the FCC tests for an amateur
- >license.
- >>
- >> Dan I'm sorry I made a personal attack. I hope you understand that to me
- >> this code thing is a challange and what many people are saying would not only
- >> take away that challange but would make the hobby much less attractive. If yo
- >> could become an EXTRA class ham in an afternoon, wouldn't that diminish the
- >> value of getting an EXTRA class license?
-
- >No. Not if the person passed tests relevent to the purposes of amateur
- >radio. (Have you ever read part 97?)
-
- >How can having more people to talk to and a greater voice in government
- >make ham radio less attractive?
-
-
- >Dan Pickersgill N8PKV - dan@mystis.wariat.org - ac447@po.cwru.edu
-
- Ya know Dan if you are so all fired hot about this hobby, then why is it
- that you got your license in July of 1991 and you haven't advanced beyond
- Technician? Could it be that you are going to spend your time crying about
- how unfair the rules are and hope that they will reduce the requirements for
- upgrade to your level?
-
- Put your energy into study it could be far less futile.
-
- 73's
- Patrick Tatro N0WCG (a Technician who wants to be an EXTRA some day)
-
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- Date: 5 Feb 1994 01:57:25 -0600
- From: tadpole.com!news.dell.com!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo.NeoSoft.com!sugar.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
-
- References <CKoDx2.ALv@ucdavis.edu>, <2isk9b$8ce@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>, <CKq1Fu.Fq7@ucdavis.edu>o.uh.
- Subject : Re: Guns and O2 (was Re: Antenna Lawsuit
-
- In article <CKq1Fu.Fq7@ucdavis.edu>,
- Daniel D. Todd <ez006683@chip.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
- >A great x ray technician! (xraytech@sugar.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
-
- >: Abolish ALL testing.
- >Is this what you believe?
-
- Perhaps you should direct that question to the biggest whiner
- in this newsgroup, Dan Pickersgill.
-
-
- --
- Radiographers who are able to use a radiographic machine well are
- great assets to the health care facility in which they are employed.
-
- --Dianne C. DeVos, "Basic Principles of Radiographic Exposure"
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