[SOC] Done with it.

[Mike Besemer (WM4B)]

Hang on... the gov't is trying to take over everything else.  Eventually
they'll get to SOC and the dumbing down will begin!

74,

Mike
WM4B

> -----Original Message-----
> From: soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of w9ya
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 6:26 PM
> To: Second Class Operators' Club
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Done with it.
> 
> 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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