Text 11951, 41 rader
Skriven 2005-04-21 06:45:40 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 11897 av VERN HUMPHREY (1:123/140)
Ärende: Off to the Wilderness
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VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT wrote:
 VH>>> The problem, Ed, is it isn't a gift horse -- as a member of the public,
 VH>>> I already own the airwaves.

 EH>> Not in the way you think you do. You can't just pick up any old radio
 EH>> transmitter and start blabbing away. You supposedly trust the FCC to
guard
 EH>> those airwaves against being used incorrectly.

 VH> Perfectly true -- but a simple handbook would be adequate to inform me
 VH> of the laws.  A cognitive test on that handbook would be more than
 VH> enough to cover that need.

 EH>> From what you are saying, you apparently don't want any restrictions on
who
 EH>> uses those airwaves. You apparently think it's ok for you to transmit
anywhe
 EH>> you see fit. If so, how can you keep someone else from  transmitting over
yo
 EH>> signal?

 VH> No -- I understand frequency management and other problems.  My point
 VH> is, learning CW does nothing to solved the frequency management problem.

Actually, it does. It weeds out the people who are unwilling to follow the
rules.

 VH> The CW test is a solution.  Now, a solution implies a problem.  And
 VH> hopefully the solution is in some way related to the problem.

I could repeat over and over that CW is sometimes the only communications that
will get through and you'd still refuse to believe it.

 VH> What is the problem that CW testing solves?

See above.

Ed

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