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hhc314@yahoo.com (Harry Conover) wrote:
day a week. The kids were 5th grade (age 10/11) and nearly all of them got a
license (novice/technician). They were also invited to participate in the "Hams
in Space" program and were able to talk to one of the astronaut hams during a
shuttle flight (with equipment provided by several local clubs). They even got
local media coverage (TV/newspaper).
Maybe the OP is right - code is just too hard ;-(
I guess the OP's next proposals will be
1) the theory is too hard
2) international radio law is too restrictive.
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I know a public school teacher who had a local ham club provide instructors oneJim Thompson <Jim-T@analog_innovations.com> wrote in message news:<dgq2iv45odhheg1rm9hnrvekrhgkt5m1sn@4ax.com>...
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:15:33 -0700, Keith
kilowattradio_spam@earthlink.net> wrote:
Dear Potential Ham Radio Enthusiast,
Recently the international body that regulates the radio spectrum removed the
requirement for knowing morse code to get a 1.8-30 MHz amateur radio license.
If you are interested in ham radio then I urge you to contact the FCC
commissioners and tell them to change the morse code requirement.
[snip]
Please take a few minutes to write a thoughtful note to the FCC Commissioners
to change and improve ham radio. Let us make ham radio useful for teenagers and
adults today.
That's what the CB band is for... the masses, or was that "asses" ?
...Jim Thompson
Thanks for posting that comment Jim. I'm pretty sure that a vast
majority of Hams will agree with you on this, even in the dumbed-down
era that we live in today!
If all the OP want to do is communicate by voice without all the
licensing challenges to satsify, why doesn't he simply use one of
those portable, license-free transcievers known as a Cell Phone?
I was initially licensed at age 12 (which in itself reveals that
neither the code or technical exam tests were that difficult), but
lost my interest during the 1970's when most Hams were using
'store-bought' rather than 'home-brew' rigs. Since most of the QSO
content up to that time involved discussions of what we weere ising
for rigs, and the aspects of their construction and performance, the
conversation content suddently became very limited in technical
content -- a bit like this newsgroup. No more "California Kilowatt"
discussions, with guys proudly boasting about their (largely illegal
rigs) with guy bragging about the pair of Eimac 3X2500F3s that they
were using in their final modulated by a pair of 4-1000s; on the other
end of the spectrum no one describing how they had WAS using only the
3-Watt output 3-W CW rig with a 6V6 as the final. Most Hams at that
time knew that 10-Meters opened up for a brief DX window at roughly
11-year cycles, and would gladly wait for 10-years to exploit its
magic when it did. At that time, antennas still ruled, and most of the
Hams that I knew personally developed a great deal of expertise in the
constructing and tuning of beam antennas, and the big debate was not
the licensing code requirement, but the height limitation placed on
ham radio towers, and whether of not a community had any authority to
regulate them!
I miss those days, and the often greast QSOs that accompanied them.
They don't exist any more, which is why I finally let my license lapse
and concentrated my efforts on off-shore sailing and pyrotechnics!
After all, when a guy tells you that he is using a Kenwood
transciever, how do you come back to that? For me, it's like in 1958
when a guy came back to you using a 'Gooney Box' (Jim, I'm pretty sure
you know what a Gooney Box is/was, but on the Ham bands today, or in
this newsgroup, I'd be willing to bet at least 90% of the people
don't!
Harry C.
(former K2JEZ)
day a week. The kids were 5th grade (age 10/11) and nearly all of them got a
license (novice/technician). They were also invited to participate in the "Hams
in Space" program and were able to talk to one of the astronaut hams during a
shuttle flight (with equipment provided by several local clubs). They even got
local media coverage (TV/newspaper).
Maybe the OP is right - code is just too hard ;-(
I guess the OP's next proposals will be
1) the theory is too hard
2) international radio law is too restrictive.
WB4HLZ
More about me: http://thelabwiz.home.mindspring.com/
VB3 source code: http://thelabwiz.home.mindspring.com/vbsource.html
VB6 source code: http://thelabwiz.home.mindspring.com/vb6source.html
VB6 - MySQL how to: http://thelabwiz.home.mindspring.com/mysql.html
My newest language - NSBasic for the Palm PDA: http://thelabwiz.home.mindspring.com/nsbsource.html
Drivers for Pablo graphics tablet and JamCam cameras: http://home.earthlink.net/~mwbt/
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