[Uram-rejections] It's a pushbutton world

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 "sideband and sidetone" is dubious, and "usual nonces" is unacceptable.  Perhaps wrong group?



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> Time was when the only possessors of personal communications
> equipment were the plodderies, squadderies and we radio hams.
> 
> Over the weekend I was in permanent 9 hour QSOs with 25
> other people on a single PMR frequency as we fence judged
> a BE equestrian cross country event. The use of these radios
> and the concomitant conversations at least had some purpose,
> some relevance.
> 
> None of them needed to be examined on their ability to operate
> pushbutton radios, because personal communications is now
> in the range of facilities available to the man on the Clapham
> omnibus 24 : 7 : 365 1/4.
> 
> Amateur radio has largely degenerated to a pushbutton world
> peopled by those who operate only, who do not understand the innards
> of their rigs (especially when it comes to sideband and sidetone?)
> and who return their rigs to emporia if ever needing repair.
> 
> Prior to WWII (Started by Brit, of course, because had Germany
> withdrawn from Poland as demanded, Brit would not have declared it)
> there was no technical examination, no RAE, no foundation, intermediate
> or "advanced" examinations. All that was need was a certified 
> declaration from a person of social standing that the candidate
> had a genuine TECHNICAL interest. There was, of course, a 12 WPM
> Morse test to be passed.
> 
> Now that the Morse requirement has passed and the radio amateur
> is indistinguishable from the man on the Clapham omnibus in terms
> of his familiarity with and possession of personal communications
> equipment, is it high time to abolish all qualifying examinations
> for amateur radio, and for it to be lumped in with CB radio, the
> latter never having had any examination requirement anyway?
> 
> Also, as amateur radio is no longer an esoteric specialist
> interest, the advantage of such a free-for-all is that there
> will be no further purpose in the continuation of the RSGB and
> all its works.
> 
> -- 
> Take this NG back from the ravages of the usual nonces.
> Start a technical thread today and behave in a gentlemanly fashion!
> 
> 
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