RadioBanter - View Single Post - ARRL to propose subband-by-bandwidth regulation

September 2nd 04, 08:29 PM

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(William) writes:

You've got a good point. He deserves no fond farewells.

But I'd buy the card, sign it, put postage on it, and maybe even
include a box of fine chocolates just to get rid of that crazy
*******.

But would he stay away?

The great unknown.

This newsgroup essentially ceased to become any sort of discussion
forum quite some while ago. Certain individuals asserted (and
inserted) themselves as "leaders" and "knew what was good for
everything" (defining that whatever They did was "good" and what
They didn't like was "bad").

This newsgroup was created some years back to catch the
"discussions" on the Morse Code Test Issue, transferring it from
rec.radio.amateur.miscellaneous. Personal denigrations of those
against retaining the code test were numerous and rather ripe with
invective and insulting inuendo from those that championed the
mighty morse modes. That was long ago when the mighty morse
ruled the rank, status, privelege "qualifications" of amateurs in
that incredible multi-tiered license structure of pre-restructuring
circa 1997. No less than six classes of license for a hobby
activity...greater than the number of classes for commercial radio
operator licenses.

Those that had Made It Through all the tests and "qualifications"
entrenched themselves behind the "safety" of their mental
barricades and mighty accomplishments (greater than anyone
could possibly be in non-amateur radio). They claimed "turf" and
bragging rights and "ownership" of What All Good Hams Must Do.

Those "masters" were aided by the self-promoting prose of the
ARRL (which had yet to get as many as a quarter of all U.S.
hams in membership). ARRL stressed morse as the epitome of
ham-ness as it had ever since Hiram had been elected president-
for-life. It was a continuation of the equation ham = morseman,
the unstated but constantly implied ultimate goal that "should" be
a part of amateur life.

In other words, the ARRL continued on the ultra-conservative path
of keeping the past as present...and naturally promoting themselves
as "leadership" for all "right-thinking hams" who should join ARRL.
That's just a natural survival tactic of any fraternal order...to survive
they need membership and attraction to the league "product" is to
tell others what those others what the league leadership thinks
they want newcomers to hear. ARRL went a bit too far.

The no-code-test Technician license class never really stopped
growing since 1991. That class has become the Majority of all U.S.
amateur licensees...regardless of the rationalizations of the pro-
coders trying to play numbers games after the Restructuring.

Pro-coders just couldn't believe the reality. "No-code" went against
their religious concepts, personified by the equation ham=morseman!
All "real" hams knew, loved, had tested for "code" so that was a
universal, divine thing they seemed to think. An amazing aberration
of theirs, clinging to past standards and practices as if to life itself.

Meanwhile, the rest of the radio world, every other radio service,
either never adopted any morse modes or just quit using morse for
communications. The Maritime radio community itself voted in the
new GMDSS to replace the old, dramatic, fabled-in-story 500 KHz
morse distress frequency. When that was done there was no real
need for morsemanship anywhere...except in the religious beliefs
of the mighty macho morsemen, themselves angry and distressed
that their Nobel-grade accomplishments were not revered. Some
became outraged and vented on all "no-coders" in barrages of
invective. Pro-coders relieved themselves in public in disregard of
all, blessed by Those Of Their Kind.

The tombstone of morse code testing was put in place at WRC-03
when most of S25 was revised. Internationally. R.I.P. code testing.

Except, like some undead ghoul of the air, the pro-coder zombies
continue to haunt, to try to keep alive that equally-dead equation
ham=morseman. They vow revenge and retribution for themselves
not understanding that their anger is about their own False Beliefs.
They continue to take out that anger, relieving themselves by
denigrations of all who are "no-code." We are awash in their "relief"
to this day. No relief tube in sight.

Amateur radio is essentially a hobby, a pleasureable activity involving
radio communications arts done for personal enjoyment. Licensing
and regulations thereof are a result of the physics of all radio, to keep
order in what would (and was) an EM chaos. Licensing regulations,
like all laws, were never fixed, immuteable, imposed by a divinity.
Regulations must remain open to change just like all laws must
remain open for change.

Pro-coders are resistant to change. They want to fight to the death
for their "principles" (false religious beliefs) of having all desiring to
be involved in a radio hobby to be licensed like the pro-coders were
licensed. No less. They were "champions" of their day and want to
keep their self-perceived crowns. They are mighty...hear them roar!

Will that stop any pro-coder from relieving themselves in public?
I doubt it. Their code keys will have to be pried from cold, dead
fingers.

Will that stop any olde-tyme hamme from relieving themselves in
public? I doubt that, too. They have proclaimed Themselves as
"masters," a kind of royalty that will never, ever abdicate their
thrones. They Know What Is Good For All...Believe in what They
Believe. They are the Elite. Their blood is blue...cyanotic.

Independence of thought is a no-no, unthinkable. There is only
One Belief. That of a minority within another minority of hobbyists
headquartered in a small New England town. They lead. All
other hobbyists must follow. They say so. Only They Know What
Is Good For All. So be it.