[PPRAANet] RE: PPARES: End of CW for HF in Great Britain, Switzerland

Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:36:14 -0600

Well Ron... I have been a SWL since the early 30's...operated military
equipment from the forties on.. picking up W4NHY in the 50's..  CW /AM  then
won my SB exciter at the Columbus Amateur Ham Fest..(GA).. Ft Benning ...
you should have heard the cat fights about us SSB ... not only that I could
them to swear at me for 10 minutes when I identified my self as W4 New
Hampshire Yankee... there were the good boys running Texas Kilowatts 10KW
taking up half the band..
I was MARS Chief stateside and overseas... often having to use unlicensed
operators from homes sometimes 100 of miles from the MARS station .. they
were from E-1s to 0-8s and civil service workers.. MARS was just an
additional job..We use to experiment with QRP long before that was
fashionable .. Operating a 1/4 watt from Taiwan to Germany on SSB...
communicated with Navy ships , submarines, freighters, embassies, British SS
and other clandestine operations in the Pacific..WX stations at the Artic
and Antarctic..I might add there were times after we establish contact and
times we did not use call signs... Moon bounces in the Ft Monmouth area...

In our own club it took about 5 years to get the club interested in Digital
communications...We demonstrated digital communications to many clubs around
the state..The Denver Area grew much faster than our own club... The Pikes
Peak Computer Society (started in the early 80's which I have been member
since we organized)  was composed of about 85% Hams... we have always had
electrical and computer engineers non-hams that did much to bringing about
digital communications.. many of the engineers got there licenses and let
them lapse because there interest was developing digital communications..
the clap trap didn't interest them.. like the CW only crowd .. we helped
TAPR get off the ground.. driving down in our motorhomes... Satellite, ATV,
Packet, APRS, DSP,SS, et el were modes the engineers enjoyed. These things
just didn't happen we were schooled and awful lot of on the job training..
Keeping communications 7/24/365 and no excuses.. even in places it took 9
months to get a requision filled by boat.. trips to Hong Kong and other MARS
station for needed parts for our military equipment...

Did I bore you?  Did I tell you how we controlled artillery and ship fire
with signal flags or signal lights in 42-43', when the radio batteries gave
out you improvise.. that was not you MOS but just an additional duty...
Semper Fi

norman miller N0ENN
Colorado Springs CO
[email protected]
Shoot - Move - Communicate

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
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Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: [PPRAANet] RE: PPARES: End of CW for HF in Great Britain,
Switzerland

Well,

This just about lowers Amature Radio in GB to "CB".
Heaven help us!!!

I am  a Tech Class operator that does not deserve access to these bands
unless I earn it and learn the proper skills needed to keep order on the
bands.

It is scary to think there are people out there that are using high power on
HF bands without the proper training.

Tools are most effective when used properly.

73's Ron KCOGLP

-----Original Message-----
From: Kit Haskins [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 12:04 PM
To: Wes Wilson; PPARES; PPRAA
Subject: RE: PPARES: End of CW for HF in Great Britain, Switzerland

I find it interesting, when I went to England in 1997 on a business trip, I
was under the impression that to operate on the HF bands required a more
stringent examination than what the USA offered their amateur radio
operators.  I kinda figured that they would be the last to minimize the CW
requirement for HF access.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Wes Wilson
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 07:57
To: PPARES; PPRAA
Subject: PPARES: End of CW for HF in Great Britain, Switzerland

All -- FYI

>From the Radio Society of Great Britain website -- just sell those ham
licenses right next to the fishing and hunting licenses at Wally World! Plop
down your $12 and you're an Extra.  For those who think CW is dead or no
longer of benefit, PPARES used it on 40m to pass sensitive messages the Red
Cross didn't want the public/media to overhear during the Campbell Fire near
Guffey.  Once the code requirement goes, the push will be to do away with
all other requirements . . . i.e., written tests.

73  Wes K�HBZ

Class B Amateurs Gain HF Privileges This Week

The RSGB is pleased to announce that, with effect from Saturday the 26th of
July, there is no longer a requirement to have passed a Morse code test in
order to operate on the HF bands in the UK. All Full and Intermediate Class
B licensees are therefore automatically granted their respective Class A
operating privileges and may operate on the HF bands using their existing
callsigns from the 26th of July. Class B licensees need not take any action
to obtain these additional operating privileges.

This long-awaited move comes about following the decision taken at the
recent World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, which agreed that a
Morse code test should no longer be an international requirement in order to
hold an HF amateur licence. The Radiocommunications Agency is to be thanked
for moving quickly in introducing this change in the UK. The official
'Gazette Notice' to bring in the change in the UK is scheduled to be
published on the 25th of July.

A series of 'Frequently Asked Questions' and answers about these changes are
published on the RSGB website. Please note that these changes do not affect
Foundation Licensees.

The RSGB welcomes all former Class B amateurs on to the HF bands and hopes
that they will obtain even greater enjoyment from their hobby.

Meanwhile, in Switzerland, the Federal Office for Communications there has
authorised Swiss CEPT Class 2 licensees to operate on the HF bands without
taking a Morse test with effect from the 15th of July.

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