The Real World Of Ham Radio

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   burt2481 says:

   February 22, 2014 at 12:44 PM

   @mike2ka I did not suggest I should be President of the ARRL, another ham
   made up the joke picture and sent it to me and I posted it. As I say to my
   students I hate the wortd sorry, because if I punched you in the nose and
   then said “sorrY”, that would not fix it. Sorry is not doing it again, yet
   you continue to toss out insults after “sorry.”

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   burt2481 says:

   February 22, 2014 at 12:35 PM

   Dick? Speak of what is missing in your life?

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   Pleun Vermeulen says:

   February 22, 2014 at 12:34 PM

   I like this one better than the other critical ham videos Burt (and like
   the radio / hike trip videos even better!). You got some valid points here.
   The bottom line I guess is: ham radio is about experimenting and personal
   contacts. Just act normal, don’t try to make it more than it really is. I
   totally agree. Keep it up!

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   brontoab1 says:

   February 22, 2014 at 11:38 AM

   A sport is something you play? Is playing cards a sport? Is playing video
   games a sport? You don’t get excersize playing those, I don’t think most
   people would consider playing cards a sport. However, fishing is a sport
   and you don’t get exercise fishing! Now I don’t know if there is such a
   thing as radio “sport” but there are definetly ways of getting exercise
   while doing ham radio. You are just a very narrowminded individual!

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   69furball69 says:

   February 22, 2014 at 11:29 AM

   You seem fairly experienced as a ham; you should know that just because YOU
   can hear a person trying to make contact, doesn’t mean that the person
   calling DX can hear the person trying to respond, this is pretty basic
   propagation fundamentals.

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   69furball69 says:

   February 22, 2014 at 11:09 AM

   @burt2481 My point was that just because YOU and the responder can HEAR the
   caller doesn’t mean he can HEAR the responder. That’s all I said, you can
   read whatever you want into it. There are several reasons why a caller may
   not be able to hear a responder.

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   dan bedwell says:

   February 22, 2014 at 10:26 AM

   if its so crap why are you a ham ?

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   burt2481 says:

   February 22, 2014 at 9:59 AM

   The soap is ready, my call is obvious, how about your call? Oh, you are a
   wimp, you hide behind “32Gofast”

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   burt2481 says:

   February 22, 2014 at 9:16 AM

   I must be very important to be the cause of people not getting a license.
   You are still a hiding wimp

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10. 

    AmateurRadio.N8VBW says:

    February 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM

    Hummmmm?

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11. 

    Darkr12 says:

    February 22, 2014 at 8:42 AM

    haha you are such a troll Burt.

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    SM6YZC says:

    February 22, 2014 at 8:34 AM

    Ever heard of fox hunting? It’s a ham radio sport 😛

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    N1AKN says:

    February 22, 2014 at 8:25 AM

    I never knew you made so many videos but Im glad I skimmed through a number
    before bumping into this one , love it too ! But whassup with YouTube
    censoring some of your videos ? I want to see the onea bout rude AM’ers !
    How bout the rude 2Mssb’ers ? If you dont have at least a pair of stacked
    10’s and 500 watts , they treat you like a novice . Keep up the great work
    , hope to talk to you some day on the radio , maybe on our next trip to
    Cape . Jeff N1AKN see my website

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14. 

    Tim W says:

    February 22, 2014 at 7:54 AM

    Great content Burt !! Keep up the great work !!!

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    burt2481 says:

    February 22, 2014 at 7:20 AM

    Classy typical of a CBer

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16. 

    burt2481 says:

    February 22, 2014 at 7:12 AM

    If my video irritate you SO bad, Why are you watching it???

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    burt2481 says:

    February 22, 2014 at 6:34 AM

    @brontoab1 You don’t get exercise fishing? The boat loads itself, carries
    itself out to the dock, hauling in a big fish is not exercise? Fishermen
    wait for their catch to hop in the boat? There a few ways of getting
    exercise in ham radio, most hams though sit on their butts cackeling.

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    pioneerz450 says:

    February 22, 2014 at 5:58 AM

    “or off-topic” “provoking readers into an emotional response” that is what
    you do when you say their hobby sucks, and that it’s full of idiots. And
    sure, not everyone has all the indians in their canoe. But, you’re not that
    good either, and if you’re like this on the internet. I can’t imagine how
    you behave on the air… And sir, i have since i got my license only run 2
    QSO’s on HF with my father, since im studying i dont have much time for any
    hobbies… Tho i have run some QSO’s on VHF.

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    DeathTheKid says:

    February 22, 2014 at 5:28 AM

    Lot of meaningful conversations with people around the world–on VoIP Ham
    programs. Echolink, CQ100, HamSphere. I became a Ham when I was 13, got my
    Advanced class ticket at 14. Then I lost interest. I am 29 now and hearing
    your videos makes me remember why I became fed up with the hobby years ago.

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    SpectreOZ says:

    February 22, 2014 at 4:58 AM

    All enthusiast communities are diverse and thus you will never agree with
    others all the time and if you did wouldn’t that be mundane? That call sign
    followed by “nothing heard” serves to indicate to the other station that if
    they had indeed called they were not heard, not dissimilar to the
    redundancy style process used by the essential services during scheduled
    weekly/monthly radio checks (at least that’s how they do it here).

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    n4sxx says:

    February 22, 2014 at 4:16 AM

    I listened to your rant and was quite dismaid by what you shared I started
    amateur radio as a novice ( Coded ) and worked the way up to tech. with
    code then to Gen. with a cert. for 23wpm code so that tells you that i span
    25+ years have done almost everything I wanted to try BUT 1 of your
    statements I heard was your child passed her test for Tech+ well BIG whoop
    my elmer was a coded extra at 13 so what there to brag about look his call
    up N4GFB and years as extra.
    some of the things you talk about like repeating info could be that on
    there side the signal from you was not so great and want to make sure your
    RATTASSed was being heard correctly 😀
    have a pissy day N4SXX

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22. 

    john williams says:

    February 22, 2014 at 3:32 AM

    what a lid.Maybe still has his OBOZO sticker on back of his Prius.

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23. 

    26fb384 says:

    February 22, 2014 at 2:49 AM

    the most boring man on the planet. what a cock

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24. 

    sandpiper9988 says:

    February 22, 2014 at 2:12 AM

    Negative Nancy.

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    Stuart N says:

    February 22, 2014 at 1:21 AM

    I you just talk negatively about ham radio why have you spent so much money
    on it?

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