Advise for new hams
Re: Advise for new hams
Well Dave this new online exam is so good they even removed the simple but nevertheless needed practicals, how can that be good for a self learning hobby which involves electric/mains.
Yes their will be many sitting the exams with some electrical experience under their belts but for many they will have never changed a 13amp fuse.
I'm not convinced it's going to be good in the long term, all we have become is cb radio haven't we?
What they should have done is issued the license on a temporary basis providing you went to a test venue and got the practicals out of the way at a later date or it gets revoked.
It's not really been thought out has it.
Yes their will be many sitting the exams with some electrical experience under their belts but for many they will have never changed a 13amp fuse.
I'm not convinced it's going to be good in the long term, all we have become is cb radio haven't we?
What they should have done is issued the license on a temporary basis providing you went to a test venue and got the practicals out of the way at a later date or it gets revoked.
It's not really been thought out has it.
M0VMT Mark
Doncaster
RSARS
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RSARS
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Re: Advise for new hams
Well i have to agree, the latest videos on you tube by radio amateurs seeking fame, there is a great numbers following them.
The hobby is growing more like CB in very many ways and tech topics over the radio is a thing of the past in most cases.
All the RSGB can see is £ signs, and is a money raising exercise.
Anyway make the most of it, It us not the hobby i started out in.
The word diabolical comes to mind.
73,
Mark.
The hobby is growing more like CB in very many ways and tech topics over the radio is a thing of the past in most cases.
All the RSGB can see is £ signs, and is a money raising exercise.
Anyway make the most of it, It us not the hobby i started out in.
The word diabolical comes to mind.
73,
Mark.
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Yes you are right, more like CB every day!
I remember the American CB mags of old, you would have some scantily clad bird lying across the bonnet of Mustang, or some other muscle car, clutching a CB mic in hand on the front cover....breaker breaker....eye candy!
Mind you a front cover photo like that might just brighten up the next issue of Radcom!
Now there's an idea!
They could use up some of the lost glossy pages filler space, after a well know retail advertiser recently pulled out, by having a "YL of the month" center fold picture.
As long as it ain't that one in a tutu with antlers!
I remember the American CB mags of old, you would have some scantily clad bird lying across the bonnet of Mustang, or some other muscle car, clutching a CB mic in hand on the front cover....breaker breaker....eye candy!
Mind you a front cover photo like that might just brighten up the next issue of Radcom!
Now there's an idea!
They could use up some of the lost glossy pages filler space, after a well know retail advertiser recently pulled out, by having a "YL of the month" center fold picture.
As long as it ain't that one in a tutu with antlers!
Re: Advise for new hams
Is it just me is the RSGB breeding M7 calls, when the M3 and M6 calls came out it was a slow small numbers at a time. but it is not in this round.
Re: Advise for new hams
Well it's a online exam so easy to buy a book and book a test, good but long term like I said I'm unsure.
Let's see how progression goes hey will it be the same old chestnut of yesteryear.
Let's see how progression goes hey will it be the same old chestnut of yesteryear.
M0VMT Mark
Doncaster
RSARS
Happy to be here
Doncaster
RSARS
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Re: Advise for new hams
They missed boat with this series with the staring of the M7 calls. They should have changed the regulations and perhaps making it a VHF/UHF licence as they have been discussing a starter licence recently.
Then they can test ground and learn more about radio including good operating.
Then they can test ground and learn more about radio including good operating.
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Is this still the way into Ham radio?
https://youtu.be/Zsd5q7cD2Qc
https://youtu.be/Zsd5q7cD2Qc
Re: Advise for new hams
All I can say is if these folks were half as professional with their amateur radio activities and abiding by the restrictions per level rules as they are in producing slick videos, the hobby would be doing well.M3PIE wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:56 am Is this still the way into Ham radio?
https://youtu.be/Zsd5q7cD2Qc
I can't ever say the need to promote myself on YouTube or whatever has ever appealed to me, and I put good money that I have done a fair bit more than some of them, it's called, or used be called, self learning and training, it was what the hobby was founded on, these day's the "student" with one extra brain cell suddenly becomes the "lecturer".
I lost interest when he compared the RAE B license that many ex CB'ers had to take back then if they wanted to join the amateur radio hobby, to being the the "foundation entry level" of the time, it wasn't a damn foundation level, it was "The level"!
There was only one.
The Morse, (Should you decide to undertake the Mission, as Tom Cruise would say ), was just the icing on the cake if you really wanted to dabble with HF, and were willing to pull your finger out, and had nothing to do with the actual radio technical level achieved once you sat and passed the RAE.
Let them get on with it, and their 27 MHz 555, and 446 bollox.
It's all radio "innit".
Of course many ex Cb'ers joined the hobby back then, the difference back then they had to put some effort in, and as such it did tend to sort out the wheat from the chaff.
These day's?....do the online foundation, and away you go, just remember to claim 10 watts up the spout and nobody will question you, no need to progress, just join the throngs of all the others that have never bothered either, be that numerous M6 or M3 that have gone before, and still are, despite owning bigger linears than have ever graced my shelf.
There are plenty of them within earshot of here.
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Yeah, that is just plain ignorance. There was ONLY the full-monty RAE.
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Well i came from CB into the hobby thanks to mentors, and i thank them. i also sat the RAE and got the then B class to get into the hobby.
What a fantastic hobby to be in their are some very interesting people in Ham radio.
However it is not what it was and sometimes i have to wonder how it went wrong?
73
Mark.
What a fantastic hobby to be in their are some very interesting people in Ham radio.
However it is not what it was and sometimes i have to wonder how it went wrong?
73
Mark.