What a blasted waste of computer time!
--Lou, K2LKK


At 12:44 PM 6/3/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>what you want to think or assume, is not my problem, and unless you are god
>or someone like that, may not always be right.
>yes, I was pleased when I got the licence, but unlike some, I don't feel I
>have to shout about it and show-off all the time.
>
>Simon
>
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 6:36 AM
> > Subject: Re: looking for a 934 aerial please.
> >
> >
> > > simon:
> > > One of the first things ham's who don't know each other do, is ask the
> > other
> > > his/her call sign...its what you might say is a way to establish common
> > > ground.
> > > If I were to find out a person is a ham, and then upon asking what their
> > > call sign was, they said "oh, im not telling you, for personal reasons
>or
> > > because i don't feel like it" i would instantly make the assumption,
>which
> > > would be right, that the person is either unlicensed and is too
> > embarrassed
> > > to admit it, is not quite mentally all there, or is a wanna b ham, or
> > CB'er
> > > who thinks that if he says he has a license, he will be more respectible
> > or
> > > have more credit to his name then if he says he's just a cb'er.
> > > Again, you have put another nail in your own coffin by using that
> > "personal
> > > information" excuse...a hams call sign is about as far from personal
> > > information as you can get.
> > > Its not like your birthday, or your address, or your mothers maden name
>or
> > > something, its a amateur call sign, and if you had one, you would be dam
> > > proud of telling everyone what it was so that if they ever ran into that
> > > call sign on the air, they would recognize you and know they had run
>into
> > > you somewhere else.
> > > And if you are keeping a call sign from us, if you have one, for those
> > exact
> > > reasons, then you shouldn't be an amateur operator in the first place.
> > > 73
> > > Colin, V A6BKX

Louis Kim Kline
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