Michael:

Good point, never hurts to "boil the blood" a bit though, long as in the
end hands can be shook and everyone walks away a bit wiser...

The old hams have valuable info and history, I would never even be such
a fool as to debate that--however, this ship needs a younger captain...

Warmest regards,
John

"Michael Coslo" wrote in message
...
John Smith wrote:
Morse is a ghost language spoken by old men when they do their rants
and name their illnesses--much to the dismay of the vital and
youthful hams...

? I've heard a lot of that on phone, but very little on CW.

The new 5 WPM test for all classes will guarantee you will NOT be
speaking morse to any young men--they will pass the 5 WPM to get the
extra license... then you will never see them again--except on phone
and modem...

That is true to a fair extent.


My own personal assessment of Haynie's talk is that he is correct to a
large extent.

The olde questions were not harder, they were different. Someone posed
a couple of likely candidate old time q's to me, and it took me just
a few minutes to find the answers.

I think the main problem with the older hams being "better" than folks
like me is the ability of many middle-aged and older men to get
incredibly worked up about almost nothing, forecasting doom from
inconsequential things.

- Mike KB3EIA -