[SOC] Done with it.

[peteclough at aol.com]

Duhhh. Wut did ya say?  HAh.. 
Pete WD4GPO



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) <mwbesemer at cox.net>
To: w9ya at qrparci.net; 'Second Class Operators' Club' <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wed, Dec 23, 2009 7:15 pm
Subject: Re: [SOC] Done with it.


Hang on... the gov't is trying to take over everything else.  Eventually
hey'll get to SOC and the dumbing down will begin!
74,
Mike
M4B
> -----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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