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   From: Rambo@thisaintreal.org   
      
   On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:03:55 +0100, "Jim in south Ayrshire ..."   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"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 ...   
   >   
   Didn't his chum set the exam?   
      
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