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- From: cummings@stein.u.washington.edu (Michael Cummings)
- Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
- Subject: Re: Real NoCodes
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 09:03:14 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- In <kd1hz.1@anomaly.sbs.com> kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
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- > 1. Real nocodes overuse Q signals on phone. QSL?
-
- So do a LOT of Generals, Advanced, and Extras.
-
- > 2. Real nocodes use a repeater when in a grocerystore talking
- > to their Good Buddy two aisles over. EMP from overhead
- > flourescent lights makes simplex communication impossible.
-
- > 3. Real nocodes would feel more comfortable if their 2 meter
- > mobile radio only had 40 channels.
-
- Below you say that this has happened. What does that mean?
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- > 5. Real nocodes are in a perpetual state of "studying the code".
-
- > Corollary: Real nocodes have boxes of accumulated Element 3B CSCEs.
-
- Hmmm. Could their acting defensive for their license class have
- anything to do with the snooty attitude of "Code" hams?
-
- [more stuff deleted]
-
- >And yes... Every one of these actually happened.
-
- Lots of hams do dumb stuff. So what? If they're lousy operators,
- they're lids. Since all kinds of hams have shown themselves capable of
- beings lids, there's no point in singling anyone out. Why persist in being
- snotty to "No-Code" Techs?
-
-
- --
- Michael Cummings NX7E
- cummings@u.washington.edu
- "To be hit by Moriyama's fastball is an honor exceeded only by being
- crushed under the wheels of the Imperial carriage." - _You Gotta Have Wa_
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