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July 21st 04, 11:10 PM

(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
In article , Robert Casey
writes:

Len, just get the damm license.

Just for the purpose of settling a very few newsgrope irregulars
who are irritated by controversy? :-)

Then don't get one.

Not a good reason "for the service!" :-)

It ain't that hard.

I'm aware of that.

How would you know? You've never even tried.

So is anyone in the public who cares to look.

:-)

Hell even 5wpm.

So, learning a useless skill is considered "important?"

What skill are you talking about? Morse Code skill is very useful in
amateur radio, so you must be talking about something else.

I've never had to learn or use any manual telegraphy in 51 years of
actual communicating on HF.

You've never been a radio amateur.

Your statement is like that of a person who never learned to drive a
manual transmission vehicle.

Morse code skill is an anachronism.

No, it isn't. It's a very useful skill. That really seems to bother
you.

Only amateurs use it with any regularity

That's why it still needs to be tested for an amateur radio license

and then those are only a few amateurs, a minority.

How do you know? Have you actually listened to the HF ham bands?

I did it and I'm no good at sort of "motor skill" kind of thing.

Not a good reason for me to waste my time trying to re-enact
the past.

There are plenty of hams on the air today. You aren't one of them.
Many of them use Morse code. You aren't one of them either.

Then get on the air some.

Been there, done that, from LF on up to microwaves.

But not as a radio amateur.

Did it earlier this year using an SGC SG-2020 on HF. :-)
[also late last year, same rig...both times very legal!]

Somebody else's rig, somebody else's license. Second-hander.

Then you can speak with some creditability
here and other forums on ham radio.

Impossible! "Those without an amateur license have zero-point-
zero experience, don't know nuthin, etc., etc., etc., etc." :-)

Who said that?

Here's a plain, simple fact, Len: You don't know squat about Morse
Code. Sure, you can quote a lot of factoids but you don't know squat
about it in a practical sense.