Subj : radio check
To : Ted Long
From : DaiTengu
Date : Tue Jan 31 2023 05:07 pm
Re: radio check
By: Ted Long to DaiTengu on Mon Jan 30 2023 12:18 pm
TL> The reason you can't understand them is that a lot of them have absolutely
TL> no clue as to how their radio works! They chain preamplified mikes into
TL> compressors and reverb/effects boxes resulting in splatter into third
TL> adjacent channels, and making themselves loud and unintelligible.
Yes, that was the joke.
TL> And it
TL> seems that more and more of them are passing the dumbed-down no-code
TL> exams, and setting up shop on 75 meters.
TL> "SAVE HAM RADIO! BRING BACK THE CODE TEST!"
Oh, you're one of them gatekeepers. You know, the ones that would rather see ham radio die a death of attrition rather than let in young people that could contribute and progress the hobby.
I'm one of them "dumbed-down no-code" licensees. Anyone who came to this hobby in the last 16 years was not required to learn a lick of morse code, but quite a few of them eventually did.
I've done a lot of listening on 75m, and all I've heard is old men talking about their colonoscopies, spreading conspiracy theories, and bitching about "those damn kids" that are on "their lawns".
Code proficency has nothing to do with how well or how poorly you operate a radio. Every person in the US passed the same basic test or set of tests. They haven't changed that much in the last 20+years.
Today it makes no difference if the code you know is CW, or Python. And there is no reason for it. If you want to learn, great! fantastic! If not, there's tons of other things to do on the radio.
Don't be a gatekeeper, Ted. It's a bad look.
DaiTengu
...Could you continue your petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
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