<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The F Call is the best thing that ever happened for me. I began study in 1978 and never did finish. With the F Call I was on air long enough to whet my appetite. I upgraded to Standard before a year had elapsed and now am studying for my Advanced.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 31 Aug 2009, at 21:23, Jack Chomley wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> At 09:15 PM 8/31/2009, Andrew Rich \(Home\) wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><font size="2">As far as I can see the WIA has created a mess, it has reduced the required standard to get into radio<br> </font> <br> <font size="2">Not raised it.<br> </font> <br> <font size="2">The FCALL effort is just a numbers game.<br> </font> <br> <font size="2">I pay a fee like everyone else that allows me a piece of spectrum<br> </font> <br> <font size="2">People overseas are miles ahead of us.<br> </font> </blockquote><br> Our club has been running upgrade exams with great success, we have more members now than we have ever had, higher attendances at meetings, many members are fired up on APRS, with network upgrades moving ahead.<br> We have members experimenting with new modes. Our club did Car Rally comms last weekend.<br> People overseas MAYBE ahead of us but......we are moving ahead too.<br> Whats your personal contribution to the improvement of the hobby? We could use your Radar Techo knowledge .......somewhere ;-) <br><br> 73 Jack VK4JRC <br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OZAPRS mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:OZAPRS@aprs.net.au">OZAPRS@aprs.net.au</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs">http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>