HI Tom,   
      
   On Tue 2012-Oct-09 07:48, TOM WALKER (1:102/401) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
   TW> Excellenmt Post and sadly true in too many cases.   
   TW> While the Ranks of The ham Community is climbing the quality leaves   
   TW> a lot to be desired.   
   TW> I blame a portion of it on the Mindless Memorization classes where   
   TW> it is in at 0800 and out at 1700 with the licence.   
      
   I'm with you, the mindless memorization is to blame imho.   
   That, and the folks who push getting your ham license as a   
   form of continuing education on the job.  YEs I believe in   
   the value of ham radio as an emergency comms tool, but   
   damit, these folks from the 'agencies" who push their   
   employees to get a ham license who aren't really into ham   
   radio do us no justice.  They get a license, then never do   
   anything with it.   
      
   A lot of that post could be apropos to fm ops too.   
      
   73   
              Richard, nf5b   
      
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