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   Message 22,338 of 23,971   
   Rambo to All   
   Re: The embarrassment of UKRAM   
   16 Sep 16 15:20:47   
   
   XPost: uk.radio.amateur, free.uk.amateur-radio   
   From: Rambo@thisaintreal.org   
      
   On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:41:51 -0000 (UTC), Brian Reay    
   wrote:   
      
   >Stephen Thomas Cole  wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> What waves are you launching today, Burt?   
   >>   
   >   
   >Waves indicating he is drowning in a sea of despair. Funny isn't it, some   
   >claimed I was only half hearted in my support for ukram lest it detract   
   >from RSGBTech, which was not only the usual nonsense but, as time has   
   >shown, RSGBTech continues to grow and thrive, being unfettered by poor   
   >moderation and the presence of the usual rejects. Conversely RealOps really   
   >needs putting out of its misery, I think it had 2 posts in Aug, one an   
   >irrelevant follow up to the first, a rally notice. There may have been one   
   >or possibly two other trivia posts. Frank's vanity group is no more than a   
   >waste of Yahoo's facilities, he seems to have stopped trying to tell Comreg   
   >what to do since the gave him a swarm of fleas in his ear  to match the   
   >ones from OFCOM.   
      
    Which begs the question..why do you keep causing trouble in here and   
   then start complaining about the trouble you cause?   
      
   Just bog off to your brilliant,  Rimmer-World group and stay there.   
      
   Make everyone happy.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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