[SOC] Done with it.

[w9ya]

Which of course begs the question; Can SOC be dumbed down any further... ?

Me thinks it can and further that we should try hard to do so... which I
will help do as soon as I figure out how to turn on my radio. (I keep buying
new ones looking for the start switch.........)

- Not So Anonymous


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Quikhooligan <quikhooligan at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Enough already! It's always been difficult to join SOC. You have to meet
> the requirements. And the requirement is to sign up on the website no matter
> how confusing the site may be. That's the way I did it and everyone else
> should have to do it the same way.  Well, I must confess I did need some
> help from one or two of the SOC head honchos who finally gave up trying to
> explain how to do it in a long series of private email messages. They were
> the ones who kindly put me on the roster manually instead of my use of the
> website procedure.
>
> Let's not get all politically correct and try to dumb down SOC.  We've
> already had enough of that in ham radio.
>
> Best regards,
> Phil - K9FH, SOC#753
>
> --- On Wed, 12/23/09, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > From: KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
> > Subject: Re: [SOC] Done with it.
> > To: w9ya at qrparci.net, "Second Class Operators' Club" <
> soc at mailman.qth.net>
> > Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 3:25 PM
> >
> > : but if the website merely said what the user should do
> > instead of having a
> > : button run a java script that assumes a user mail client
> > then we would not
> > : be having this discussion. I know, I know, this would be
> > too simple so it
> > : probably has no business being discussed here at all.
> > Shame on me and my
> > : ways.
> >
> > I think perhaps an extensively descriptive paragraph above
> > AND below said
> > non-button explaining its intent may be of value.
> > And, of course, some
> > flashy arrows with text within them explaining to not click
> > on the arrows,
> > but the non-button word to the left or right of the
> > appropriate arrow,
> > explaining that it's just as good as a button, even thought
> > it might not be.
> > The buttons should be hot pink with sky blue text that
> > flash alternately at
> > about 5 Hz to get the SOC's attention.
> >
> > Kurt
> >
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