ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Not Fun When</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1589" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#970872> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P align=center><IMG src="RadoShack_files/snf.jpg"></P> <P> <HR> <P></P> <P align=center><FONT color=#00ff00 size=5>"<I>The Amateur is Considerate</I>...never knowingly uses the air for his/her own amusement in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others."</P> <HR> <P align=center></FONT>&nbsp;</P> <P align=center><FONT color=#ffff00 size=5>Of course the obvious ones are those who find&nbsp; every opportunity&nbsp;to inject foul words into the conversation to &nbsp;impress everyone with their mastery of the English language..</FONT></P> <P align=center><FONT color=#ffff00 size=5>There are those who&nbsp; feel the need to be the frequency Police.&nbsp; Who seems to delight in Thumping their chest, dragging their knuckles and thrashing the branches while chastising another Ham for any small infraction of their interpretation of proper Ham eticate.&nbsp; Doing so loudly and well beyond when the point has been made..&nbsp; </FONT></P> <P align=center><FONT color=#ffff00 size=5>Then there are those who enter a QSO as a bully does in the school yard.&nbsp;&nbsp;They don't follow protocol for recognition.&nbsp;&nbsp;No, they just shove their way in and often take over the subject being discussed and start dictating who is to talk next acting as a net control with 3 people present..</FONT></P> <P align=center><FONT color=#ffff00 size=5>There are those who purposely give false information.&nbsp; Like "It is illegal to tune up on the air, tune into a dummy load."&nbsp; And become argumentative if they are called to task that the FCC rules permit one way transmission on air for tuning of equipment.&nbsp; How would&nbsp;you expect to make your Pickup run better by tuning up your car.&nbsp; By the same token, how would you bring an all band antenna into tune for the&nbsp; frequency by switching off the antenna and tuning into a dummy load. Makes one wonder how they passed their Ham test.</FONT></P> <P align=center><FONT color=#ffff00 size=5>Then there are the "Good Ole Boys" who&nbsp; will try to run you off a frequency when you try to use a frequency not currently being used, claiming some type of ownership.&nbsp; Which by the way is illegal to do as set forth in the FCC rules.&nbsp; No one owns a frequency, if not in use, any Ham has license to use it.</FONT></P> <P align=center><FONT color=#ffff00 size=5>There are those who evidently are not intelligent enough to carry on a conversation and resort to unidentified transmissions of usually vulgar interrupts.&nbsp; Would it not be cool to have their Mommy look over their shoulder while they were engaged in this activity and ask them, "Son, WHAT ARE YA DOING?"&nbsp; She would probably have to change their diaper after startling them..</FONT></P> <P align=center><IMG src="UnderConstruction.gif"></P></BODY></HTML>