"...............did not intend to pick a fight with you. I intended to give advice to ****, who started the post.
Yes I am too lazy to take the test, and I have a long list of things that I find are more entertaining and more important to me than a HAM test. Taking the test would further obligate me to not do some of the radio things that I do, and I'm just not interested in following those rules or laws. Perhaps I might in the future, if I would happen to develop an interest in it, but for now I find it kinda boring.
I am not too stupid to pass the test, I have experience that includes a background in electronics, and I have a career that is much more technical and challenging than a HAM test, so intelligence and fear of the lack therof is not the issue. ..........."(quote)
This was sent to me by friend that can access a-shall-we-say certain website that not only cannot STAND truth, but helps to promote misinformation. I cannot access that site.
I can only get as far as the "clown" (wink wink)
The poster goes on to say that "the ham 'channels' don't get used very often, the tests can be ace-d by an 8 y/o (He hasn't seen the Extra exam, nor would he stand a chance with the old "ADVANCED" test. He also stated that. Yeah, yeah, the "ham channels" are dying......yada yada... None of which is true! And he continues with the old diatribe about "ham police" .
This is typical pablum found on websites by people have no idea about with they are talking, and only serves to INCREASE the tension between hams and CBers. The above post, or others like it, then get used by the hams to then mock and ridicule CB operators.
Yes, following along with the post, he seems to imply that hams are less competent nor have abilities far exceeding electronics. I know hams who are MILLIONAIRES (such as the one that made his living in industrial computers and controls) and BOUGHT an old NASA "spy" station in the NC mountains, turning it into an astronomy camp for kids. Many are pilots, engineers, municipal officers, accountants, corporate officers. Yes, I take offense at his slap at ham radio, but the post is designed to show the rift and, I suppose, jealousy between the two groups. For the most part, the hams don't CARE what CB folks do ON CB! Yeah, I know, some of them will run around reporting Ebay auctions, but not all. Some will report people for "freebanding", etc. A good bit of that comes from people who show up where they don't belong (on the ham bands), and they get mad and "get even". And, finally, many hams, since they actually followed the law in obtaining their ticket, get resentful about the amplifiers, the export radios, and the "freebanding", and the outlaw types use CB radio as a "competing" service to amateur radio. IOW, they experience no pain , and get away with snubbing their noses at laws.
So it goes on and on and on...................*(sigh)
CWM
Yes I am too lazy to take the test, and I have a long list of things that I find are more entertaining and more important to me than a HAM test. Taking the test would further obligate me to not do some of the radio things that I do, and I'm just not interested in following those rules or laws. Perhaps I might in the future, if I would happen to develop an interest in it, but for now I find it kinda boring.
I am not too stupid to pass the test, I have experience that includes a background in electronics, and I have a career that is much more technical and challenging than a HAM test, so intelligence and fear of the lack therof is not the issue. ..........."(quote)
This was sent to me by friend that can access a-shall-we-say certain website that not only cannot STAND truth, but helps to promote misinformation. I cannot access that site.
I can only get as far as the "clown" (wink wink) The poster goes on to say that "the ham 'channels' don't get used very often, the tests can be ace-d by an 8 y/o (He hasn't seen the Extra exam, nor would he stand a chance with the old "ADVANCED" test
. He also stated that. Yeah, yeah, the "ham channels" are dying......yada yada... None of which is true! And he continues with the old diatribe about "ham police" .This is typical pablum found on websites by people have no idea about with they are talking, and only serves to INCREASE the tension between hams and CBers. The above post, or others like it, then get used by the hams to then mock and ridicule CB operators.
Yes, following along with the post, he seems to imply that hams are less competent nor have abilities far exceeding electronics. I know hams who are MILLIONAIRES (such as the one that made his living in industrial computers and controls) and BOUGHT an old NASA "spy" station in the NC mountains, turning it into an astronomy camp for kids.
Many are pilots, engineers, municipal officers, accountants, corporate officers. Yes, I take offense at his slap at ham radio, but the post is designed to show the rift and, I suppose, jealousy between the two groups. For the most part, the hams don't CARE what CB folks do ON CB! Yeah, I know, some of them will run around reporting Ebay auctions, but not all. Some will report people for "freebanding", etc. A good bit of that comes from people who show up where they don't belong (on the ham bands), and they get mad and "get even". And, finally, many hams, since they actually followed the law in obtaining their ticket, get resentful about the amplifiers, the export radios, and the "freebanding", and the outlaw types use CB radio as a "competing" service to amateur radio. IOW, they experience no pain , and get away with snubbing their noses at laws.So it goes on and on and on...................*(sigh)
CWM
