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   Message 22,336 of 23,974   
   Stephen Thomas Cole to Spike   
   Re: The embarrassment of UKRAM   
   16 Sep 16 10:10:36   
   
   XPost: uk.radio.amateur, free.uk.amateur-radio   
   From: usenet@stephenthomascole.com   
      
   Spike  wrote:   
   >   
   > A full nine months after its creation, we're still getting threads of   
   > the "Am I notching?" variety. While this helps to bump up the miserable   
   > posting rate there, they are only serving to demonstrate how little   
   > people understand about the propagation of moderated messages.   
   > Radio-wave propagation seems also to be a poorly-understood area. What   
   > is it about this fundamental subject that keeps so many 'amateurs' in   
   > such ignorance? Poor training, perhaps, or a poorly structured policy?   
   > This 'new' exam and licence scheme leaves much to be desired, or so the   
   > evidence suggests. Perhaps having the answers written underneath the   
   > exam questions might have something to do with it.   
   >   
      
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