XPost: uk.radio.amateur, free.uk.amateur-radio   
   From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   On 16/09/2016 15:20, Rambo wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   That's another myth busted, then. Pork Belly clearly didn't write that   
   part of the question pool for the FL, as there's plenty of waves   
   mentioned in the syllabus. Stephen Thomas "What waves am I launching?"   
   Cole M0TEY aka Dorpy clearly didn't read/understand them, making one   
   wonder how he managed to pass the exams having zero background in   
   electronics, radio, physics, engineering, etc. Any ideas, anyone?   
      
   --   
   Spike   
      
   We are not only our brother's keeper;   
   in countless large and small ways, we are our brother's maker.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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