i don't think whoever joins, would lose it but if it aint a ham radio 
thing like echolink or irlp, or any other ham thing, don't claim it is i 
guess is my big thing, i mean there are chatrooms yes, but call it a 
chatroom or whatnot, but not a hamradio simulation or whatever. and yes, 
I'm all for hams having chat places but i guess just remember they are two 
different animals and one involves radios or a bunch of them, and one 
doesn't


On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, hank smith wrote:

> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:09:37 -0800
> From: hank smith <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Taking the radio out of ham radio
> 
> in that case I am not going to join
> don't want to loose my license.
> I just got my license in june of 2006 and don't care to loose it.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: Taking the radio out of ham radio
>
>
>> because that has nothing to do with ham radio what so ever and in fact
>> helps
>> go against ham radio because of the way it's promoted. It should be 100%
>> illegal for an internet chat room, to "require" a ham radio license and
>> the
>> insinuation that they are anything to do with ham radio puts them over the
>> line, in my book, of fraud. Anyone who'd support such a thing obviously
>> doesn't care at all about ham radio and what it's all about and shouldn't
>> have a license, especially for those incredibly shameful lazy hams that
>> will
>> actually use that in place of HF privileges, and potentially the work to
>> get
>> a license to go on HF because the fact remains, it's nothing more than an
>> internet chat room that fraudulently claims to be ham radio, simulated or
>> not.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "hank smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: Taking the radio out of ham radio
>>
>>
>>> why should they loose there license?
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:12 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Taking the radio out of ham radio
>>>
>>>
>>>> but this idiot that invented this doesn't have any RF involved at all so
>>>> it's not radio in the least and anyone who thinks it is needs to look at
>>>> what radio is. Personally, I think anyone who would sign up or anything
>>>> with
>>>> them should lose their license but that's JMO.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Christopher Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:38 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: Taking the radio out of ham radio
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Buddy,
>>>>> Since you signed up for the 90 day free trial, give us a report on how
>>>>> it work and whether the transceiver software is accessible.  They said
>>>>> there were some shortcut keys to help the visually impaired.
>>>>>
>>>>> The one nice thing about this product is you don't need to mess around
>>>>> with your router ports as you do with echolink.  you can also make
>>>>> qso's
>>>>> with cw.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the purists might argue that anything that use voip is NOT ham
>>>>> radio.
>>>>>
>>>>> 73 Chris w1gm
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>