cq100 is the worst. They wouldn't even admit they were simulated until they 
were ordered to. I'm too tired to go on that rant again, it's in the 
archives if you want to see it, my thoughts have only got stronger since 
then.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Sackrider" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:42 PM
Subject: ham radio and the internet


> Hi this isBrian Sackrider n8mnx and you need to rembember that lots of
> people live in places with very restrictive antenna restrictions I live in
> an apartment am I very limited on what antennas that will fit on my 
> balcony
> and I use the cq100 program on my computer this is a vertual hf radio no
> it's real hf radio but it's all that some of us have you are required to
> send prove of your licence to by a membership on cq100.  there is a 90 day
> free trial and then it cost 39 dollars per year.  there people on it that
> are in nursing homes and in hhospitals and they can still can communicate
> and on the issue of echo link and irlp they are 2 other modes that people
> with antenna restrictions can still operate so it's always that people are
> to lazy to putup antenas please think and get your facts before you judge
> put yourself in our place I got my licence to communicate
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: John Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 1:25 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 47 years as a ham
>
> When *I* pick up the phone, it generally is a complete waste of time but
>        that's beside the point. I didn't get a radio license to talk on 
> the
> phone
> or the internet, that's not radio and I'd be flat out embarrassed to brag
> about my last phone call to NY or skype call to TN or where ever it was 
> all
> those months ago and I certainly would never call an internet conversation
> or phone call DX, accept a card or anything for it. Why anyone would get a
> radio license just to use the internet is well beyond me but then, that's
> why I never get on 2 meters, that's all anyone seems to do these days and
> they're so happy they never have to actually work to make a contact,
> upgrade, put up antennas or anything. As far as I'm concerned, they
> shouldn't be any part of radio with that attitude since they don't even 
> know
> what radio is if they're calling the internet radio.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 8:47 AM
> Subject: Re: 47 years as a ham
>
>
>> So john, does that mean if you pick up a telephone you are just wasting
>> your
>> time?
>> How is that different than incorporating the Internet?
>