"Kim W5TIT" wrote in message
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"Bert Craig" wrote in message
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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"Alun" wrote in message
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It just so happens that I don't
like CW, in the sense of I have no desire to use it. That should be
OK
too, but for some reason it bothers you. Why?

No it does not bother me that someone who has learned it chooses not
to
use
it. They have made that decision from a position of knowledge and
experience. This is radically different from a person judging it and
saying
they will never use it when they do not have that knowledge and
experience
to draw on.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

Right on the money, Dee. Larry pointed this out earlier, but not as
eloquently as you.

73 de Bert
WA2SI



It fascinates me that you won't accept someone's plain and simple truth
that
they don't like CW--even if they don't have experience with it--because
you
reason that they need to have "knowledge and experience" with it.

I don't know what's so fascinating about it, Kim. It stands to reason that
to make an "educated" decision regarding anything, one should be...well,
somewhat educated on the subject. That includes some practical experience.
One certainly need not be an expert, and appropriately, the 5-wpm Element 1
test is not an expert level test.

Well, I
know people who are quite well-versed in CW who don't like it,

Educated decision.

people who
haven't ever even tried it and don't like it,

That's why we have the no-code Techician license.

and people who have taken and
passed a 5wpm test and don't like it.

Again, an educated decision. What's the point?

I also know people from those same
three categories that do like CW operation.

I seem to have found them...on the bottom of 40. Interestingly enough, I've
even heard interested folks who've yet to pass Element 1 practice their code
(Legally) on CB ch. 14 using 100mW Part 15 devices.

It's pretty much as simple as folks who do or don't like most other things
in life. Either ya like it or ya don't.

....And that's certainly fine by me, Kim. However, many of these anti-code
folks are about to diminish the value (As a whole.) of a hobby I dearly
love...despite having a very generous chunk of no-code RF real estate.

I've had the advantage of seeing this whole code vs. no-code debacle unfold
before me through the eyes of a relatively unbiased newbie. If you remove
the passion and whining from both sides of the equation, it becomes very
clear what the issue is really about...because it damn sure ain't that 5-wpm
code exam.

Kim W5TIT

73 de Bert
WA2SI