In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

We're supposed to do as Len says, not as Len does.

Y'all are? Well, heck, why not...you demand Obediance to the
old standards and practices in a radio hobby...and have for years
without going along with any change.


Unless we support the
elimination of code testing, in which case we can do almost anything and
it's
OK with Len.

He probably wouldn't find it very interesting around here then!

On the contrary...:-)

If the code test were eliminated, I wouldn't bother to be here. :-)



Code test good or code test bad, elimination of it will probably not
bring anything to the ARS.

Tsk. The only thing the code test requirement did was to form
the ARS as the Archaic Radiotelegraphy Society. :-)

Plus a lot of puerile nyah-nyahs from those who could do morse
at high rate having playground glee at talking down to those who
couldn't. :-)


If I were to hazard a deduction, I would have to say that from
everything I have seen, he is more interested in the destruction of
Amateur radio than anything else. I had concluded as much before, but
the diatribe of a few days ago was especially telling, in the ARS
license numbers thread, where he starts out with

Oh, my, aren't you the most Self-Righteous One! :-)

How does the elimination of the morse code test for a U.S. amateur
radio license, any class, suddenly "Destroy the ARS?"

Tsk. You should be reporting me to the Secretary of Homeland
Security or the Attorney General for all this "destruction!"

Yup, lots of Morsemen would be faced with "destruction" of the
ARS AS THEY KNOW IT if the code test were eliminated.
Woe! Great weeping and gnashing of gums on that.


Don't forget telling W4NTI he fills the target...

That is one I would like to forget.

Not to worry. You simply can't remember that a PCTA extra
said the same to me, years ago, and relatively recently.


Almost all radio services have gone in the direction of "no radio operator
needed", for the obvious reasons. Radio to them is a tool, not an end in
itself. If the maritime folks could replace "Sparks" with an automatic
system,
they'd do it just to save Sparks' salary and benefits.

Tsk. The "autoalarm" was already in-place on many ships prior to
1941...including the North Atlantic fabled in much earlier tales of
morsemanship.

How many NON-essential crewmen are there on ocean-going
vessels, now or in the past four decades? Hint: Not many.


It's a very basic concept, this business of the skilled radio operator.
Most if
not all of the other radio services have eliminated them, or are trying to
do
so. Yet it's precisely what we hams aspire to be!

And it's precisely what Len either doesn't understand, or understands and
wants
to destroy.

There isn't much I can add to that, Jim. Well said.

Putting aside your own personal hatred of a newsgroup opponent,
you COULD have looked at the past history of the larger world of
radio communications and - if at all possible (but unlikely in here) -
dispassionately agreed with the larger world of radio.

"Skilled radio operator" does NOT mean what it did in the 1920s
and 1930s when morsemanship was needed. This is 80 to 70
years later, remember?

Tsk. The elimination of the morse "skill" was already starting
in the 1940s. Those who were self-righteous about THEIR mighty
morsemanship had blinders on and couldn't see it. All those
"sparks" and their mighty macho morsemanship "skills" were
being displaced/downsized/nonessential on ocean-going vessels
by the 1960s. [today's maritime radio services use voice by VHF
of HF SSB and Data on HF...both of which require NO morsemanship
whatsoever]

If you wish to buy into mythos of morsemanship, fine. But, trying
to convince everyone in the new millennium that this is really the
1920s and 1930s in radio sounds remarkably stupid. "Dumbed-
down" to reality, in fact.

Archaic Radiotelegraphy Society is what you are in. Enjoy.



Posted on 16 Jan 05