XPost: uk.radio.amateur, free.uk.amateur-radio   
   From: james.stewart497@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Spike"  wrote in message   
   news:e42o5jFcdakU3@mid.individual.net...   
   > 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?   
   >   
   pass ...   
      
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