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On 14/04/2022 21:59, RSGB via rec.radio.info Admin wrote:
Transatlantic Tests video released
Posted: 14 Apr 2022 12:57 PM PDT http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2022/04/14/transatlantic-tests-video-released/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
The Radio Society of Great Britain and the ARRL have been celebrating
the centenary of the Transatlantic Tests. The RSGB has just released a
video that highlights the fantastic exhibition put on by the National Heritage Centre in Saltcoats, the 1921 message re-enactment by the
Kilmarnock and Loudoun Amateur Radio Club and also the 160m []
I find it to be hypocritical of the RSCB (sic) to repeatedly claim
parity with activities and wireless clubs which existed several
years before they, the RSCB, were incorporated.
The experimenters in those days were tecnhnically motivated, which
is in complete contrast today with the RSCB who, in order, I believe,
to fill their own membership coffers pleaded with OfCom to
introduce a lamentably poor level of technical competence in
the shape of the Foundation (AKA Fools') licence.
That licence is little removed from CB Radio and the associated
licensees have flooded the RSCB membership lists, if the monthly
tables in BadCon are to be believed. The danger is that those
members with such lamentably poor licences may outnumber the
Full licensees such that the fools will rule the asylum.
RSCB? Yes, indeed. By becoming an organisation promoting
and accepting for membership those with CB-like licences,
the RSGB has become the RSCB.
The great failure of the Foundation scheme is that there are
many losers still with M3 licences after 10 years.
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