A few years ago a relative was asking me about what it took too get a
license as he had a mild interest. I told him about the VEs and question
pool etc. He asked if the exam pool questions delt with how to actually get
on the air and operate. I had to admit that it didn't but certainly should.
In recent years I've noticed that when listening to field day SSB ops
that
there is lots of CB lingo and generally clueless ops. In my opinion there is
a group of poor ops that have been tought by poor ops so we are at least in
the 2nd generation of this. Unfortunately due to CC&Rs many US hams are
unable to put up meaningful antennas to get on HF and FD is the only time of
the year they operate HF.
I've traveled a bit and when talking to hams in other countries I find
that
CC&Rs and similar things are pretty much strickly a US deal. Most people in
other countries feel that what ever you do on your property is your business
and you can pretty much do as you please. I visited a ham in The Netherlands
and he lived in a typical Dutch row house and his lot was about 25 ft wide.
He had a tower in the back yard that had been approved by the authorities.
Never were his neighbors asked if they had any comments or objections. It
was approved even though his HF beam antenna overhangs the neighbors
property on each side and a city park on the back. Ham HF activity (cw too)
is alive and well in other parts of the world. In last November's CQWW CW
contest there was a record number of logs submittted (4040) with conditions
well off the cycle peak.
73 Phil N0KE
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From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Anthony W. DePrato
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 9:58 AM
To: Bill Coleman; Dave W7DPW
Cc: writelog; rtty
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] [RTTY] RTTY In CW Bands ?
Well we can put a lot of the blame on ourselves. being a ve for over 20 yrs
and having taught over 100 ham class's it came to me one day that I was
teaching everything but our SOP's the last 30 some class's i had here in
south central KY. i spent the last day talking about how to operate and
what pro signs to use and telling them that we did not use good buddy ,
whats ur 20 , and most of all the personnel here is !
they all seems very glad to know this and realized that they would not
stand out as an ex cber on the ham bands..btw i taught theory NOT the
questions that most do today.
73 Tony WA4JQS
p.s. i spent 2 days on band plans and gentleman's agreements also.
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