I heard a similar argument about being disaplinned enough to keep track 
of who's turn it was on a 2 meter impromptue net on a repeater. 
personally, I think in the long run amateur radio is exactly that. 
amateur. and while there's a certain level of decorum expected on the 
bands, it's not a given. there is fun to be had there also. However, 
that doesn't give everyone license to carry on like a bunch of, dare I 
swear on here, CBers.
I've noticed that hams generally police themselves and keep pirates at 
bay by simply not acknolodging them. and if someone is smart enough to 
pirate and not give away the fact they're doing that, they'll generally 
treat them with the same curticy everyone else is extended. if however, 
the supposed smart pirate is found out and detected, then they're 
promptly ignored and rightly so. as stated before, people passed exams 
to gain the privilages to transmit on these bands. so let us all be the 
ladies and gentlemen we know we can be and deal with things in a 
civilised manner. and if someone asks a dumb question, then answer them. 
it's not going to kill anybody. there's doubtless others out there that 
have forgotten more than the questioner will ever possibly know.
just my 2 bob worth.
shaun


On 25/02/2008 6:13 AM, the old scribe known as Lou Kline was able to 
impart this pearl of wisdom:
> Don't knock the dog--my dog is more disciplined than most of the guys that 
> are on 75 meters at night!  And they passed exams, too.
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> At 12:15 PM 2/24/2008 +1100, you wrote:
>> hey it could be worse, exams could have been ditched altogether. then
>> every man and his dog and pet weirdo would be on the ham bands. There's
>> enough piracy goes on there now without making it easier for them.
>>
>>
>> On 24/02/2008 7:24 AM, the old scribe known as Howard Kaufman was able
>> to impart this pearl of wisdom:
>>> It's the cold half of a dipole.
>>> Frequency in mhz, divided by 468, divided by 2.  Isn't this on the modern
>>> exams?
>>> Myy g-d!  eliminating the code, now people don't have to know how to 
>> figure
>>> out antenna length?
>>> Why don't we just make the exams in to questions like "what's the e-mail
>>> address of your nearest Ham radio store?
>>> 2.  Name three companies that make commercial antennas.
>>>
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