RadioBanter - View Single Post - What is the ARRL's thought on having good amateurs?

Dave Heil · October 29th 06, 08:30 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

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Dee Flint wrote:
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The ONLY separate pass-fail TEST is for manual telegraphy.
Wow! I guess CW is more valued than ALL OF THE OTHER MODES COMBINED!
Not so. However, all the digital and image modes are merely a matter of
connecting the radio to the computer and running the appropriate software.

Then why do the military service have technical schools to do somehting
so very simple?

I guess it is because of the raw material they have to work with.

Why aren't the communications billets merely a direct duty assignment
after basic training?

They can be. That's how I did it. I never set foot in an Air Force
technical school. Of course I'd already been a radio amateur for seven
years when I joined the military. I was awarded my 3-level right out of
basic training. I went directed duty to Barksdale AFB after ten days of
leave after Amarillo.

Whole government agencies gave up on code. Commercial businesses gave
up on code.

Oracle uses a lot of code.

Dave K8MN