Dee:

Michael's own words:
"There certainly are women in Ham radio, and although a minority, ..."

What does that mean--they are being held out by the old farts? The
women too want no-code?

Just what is the reason he was claiming?

John

"Dee Flint" wrote in message
...

"John Smith" wrote in message
...
... oh, I love that argument!!! Let me see if I have it correctly,
either:

1) Women are too stupid for the technical fields.

How you managed to twist Mike's words to come up with this
interpretation is amazing. He neither said nor implied anything of
the sort.


2) We are no worse than any other technical field about baring women.


He said nothing about barring women from technical fields. Again how
you managed to come up with this inverted interpretation is one of the
mysteries of the world. Women choose not to go into technical fields
for their own reasons. That includes hobby activities like ham radio.

ROLL!!!!!

John


Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

"Michael Coslo" wrote in message
...


wrote:


Phil Kane wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:21:00 -0700, John Smith wrote:


... all the women I have ever tried to interest in radio... all
have
declined doing anything towards getting a license... once they
even see
a key and a code practice oscillator they look at me as if I am
crazy
and ask, "You are kidding, right?"

Tell that to our friend Claire who is the NCS of the Beaver State
(CW) Traffic Net - high-speed CW. And she's no dummy - retired
PhD
in a specialized field of the biological sciences.


. . . then there was the legendary traffic handler Mae Burke W3CUL
who
was a neighborhood housewife . .


I can't imagine any person becoming a Ham because they simply want
to "chat with someone around the world".

In the first place most of my DX contacts are pretty terse, and
don't fulfill any "chatting needs". Not that I have chatting needs!

There certainly are women in Ham radio, and although a minority,
they are probably no more of a minority than women's representation
in other technical fields. This would mean that any problem is
shared with those other technical fields, and not a Ham radio
specific problem.

- Mike KB3EIA -