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   From: james.stewart497@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Rambo"  wrote in message   
   news:nnnotbtvv7hchh7ujti6efa8hrc5sggm02@4ax.com...   
   > 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?   
      
   must be masons ......   
      
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