Hi Pat,
I'm not leaving, Ed!
There is someone who is on this list, very well known, who thinks the same way that I do, and I'll let him identify himself, if he chooses to!
I'm tired of hearing hams tlak like cbers. Hams need to talk the talk, the correct talk.  This hobby has gone to hell in a hand basket!
We've got hams, who should know better, doing things on hf that I'd never do, whistling, keying up on people, you name it!
This hobby is not the ham radio I use to know.
The operating skills of many hams, are absolutely attrocious.
73,
Trippy, ac8s
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ed Malmgren 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 2:49 PM
  Subject: Fw: License Renewal?


  Hey Tricky, if you don't like what goes on here, move on, I doubt anyone 
  will miss your bull.  73
  Ed   K7UC

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  From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
  Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:38 PM
  To: <[log in to unmask]>
  Subject: Re: License Renewal?

  > HI all,
  > Please, can we stop with the 73's?
  > We're suppose to be hams here, not chicken banders.
  > I'm not alone, when it comes to that, either.
  > A very well known ham, nationally, has this pet peeve as well, and I =
  > also do.
  > This is not cb, this is ham radio, and if you're gonna be a ham, talk =
  > the talk!
  > 73,
  > Trippy, ac8s
  >  ----- Original Message -----=20
  >  From: Howard, W A 9 Y B W=20
  >  To: [log in to unmask]
  >  Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 8:38 AM
  >  Subject: License Renewal?
  >
  >
  >  Hi Howard,
  >
  >  This is Howard #3.
  >
  >  About 4 years ago I renewed my license on the FCC website and I didn't =
  > =3D
  >  have=3D20
  >  any trouble.  There site is very accessible.
  >
  >  Before you can use their Universal Licensing System, you need to get =
  > an =3D
  >  ID=3D20
  >  number from them.  This also can be done online and the number will =
  > be=3D20
  >  e-mailed to you immediately.
  >
  >  If you are reasonably proficient at filling out forms online, this =
  > whole =3D
  >
  >  process can be completed in less than half an hour at most.
  >
  >  On a scale of 1 (easy) to 10 (hard) this exercise  is about a 3 in =
  > my=3D20
  >  opinion.
  >
  >  The hardest thing is to figure out what website to go to.
  >
  >  If anyone is interested, I will look up the address and post it here.
  >
  >  If you are able to get an Amateur license than you are smart enough to =
  > =3D
  >  renew=3D20
  >  it independently.
  >
  >  73's
  >
  >  Howard #3, W A 9 Y B W