[Fists] Ain't it awful?

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 04:44:06 -0400

Frankly Jim it could be worse. In South-Eastern Connecticut you hear nothing
all day and night. Many repeaters, lots of bandwidth, and nobody there. If
there is truly that many of them, then it would seem to be a ripe area for
recruitment "into the fold" through some positive talk.

73,

Mark W1EOF

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> In 1991 they removed the Morse requirement for VHF/UHF-only
> licensees.
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> "Ain't it awful what they've done to us?" was the cry.  But ham radio
> went on and flourished.
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> Flourished ??  In our area it has indeed flourished....
> for the truckers.
> Our linked repeater sytems have been completely taken over
> by endless chatter about mile markers and whining about
> the oppressive 5 wpm code req for HF.
> VHF/UHF  has definately gone downhill as a result of deminished
> license requirements.  It's just CB now.        jim  N5KY
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