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

Dave Heil · November 2nd 06, 06:44 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

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Dee Flint wrote:
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Half of all USA licensed amateurs are licensed under a Code-Free
license.
You mean the Technician? If so, they are a considerable amount less
than half.
40% is more like it.
49.5% according to your very own postings.
You are mistaken, Brian.
No, I'm not.
Half of all USA licensed amateurs are licensed under a Code-Free
License.

Ooops. Without inserting the word "TEST" in "Code-free" will
automatically alert Mighty Macho Morseman Miccolis to run off
again with his "helpful correction of mistakes." :-)

Let's face fact: Brian was incorrect in his statement.

The Technician license does not make up 49.5% of US hams. The total of
Technicians and Technician Pluses reaches about that level. (All
Technician Pluses are Morse Code tested).
The FCC did away with the Technician Plus class of license. They are
all Technicians now. The Technician license has no requirement for a
code exam. Should a Technician wish to use what were once Technician
Plus priveleges, they're on their own to show eligibility.
Miccolis can't seem to understand the LAW. No matter how
often it is explained to him, he falls back on the Speroni
'definition' of 'What Technicians Are.' Of course, AH0A
is a PCTA morseman of unchangeable ideas.
Half of all USA licensed amateurs are licensed under a Code-Free
License.

Tsk, Mighty Macho Morseman Miccolis will HAVE to "reply" with
his "helpful correction of mistakes" a la the mighty macho
morseman style of "knowing what is best for amateur radio"
(as He sees it...).

Jim has been a licensed radio amateur for decades. I'd accept his view
on how best to regulate amateur radio before I'd accept the word of
someone who had never obtained any class amateur radio license. Now what?

Half of all USA licensed amateurs are licensed under a Code-Free
License.

True enough...and the OTHER half had to take a morse code TEST
to get that AMATEUR license.

Repeating his false statement doesn't make Brian's claim true. Your
"true enough" doesn't make it true.

Tsk. Miccolis is hell-bent on character-assassination lately.
I make a typo in a message and he makes it into a HEADLINE
STORY charging some kind of ineptitude! :-)
It was obviously a typo. But Jim and Dave put on their stupid face
allatime.

True enough. They don't have ONE consideration that I saw
my error and posted my own correction of it.

On every 'QWERTY' keyboard there is one key with an
(unshifted) apostrophe and a (shifted) double-quote.

Really, Len? Do you know why we have the QWERTY keyboard?

In the shorthand version of dimensioning, a foot is
denoted by the suffix of an apostrophe while an inch
is denoted by the suffix of double quote. As an
example, my height can be written 5' 10" or, in longer
form, five feet ten inches. In rapid typing (I learned
touch-typing in middle school) it is possible to make
a mistake in too much pressure on the Shift key and
inadvertently type in the double-quote.

You must have missed a few lessons during that touch-typing course.
You aren't supposed to rest your fingers on any of the keys. Your John
Kerry explanation doesn't wash. To type an apostrophe, your finger
shouldn't have been on the shift key at all.

But...in the Grand Inquisitor manner of the might macho
morsemen, a type by an NCTA is a CAPITAL OFFENSE...

No, Len, it was simply another error.

...punishable by a lifetime of message comments about that
typo...and NEVER acknowledging that it was corrected!

When you resort to a preposterous excuse for making a typo--one that is
absurd to anyone who knows anything about touch-typing--you'll likely
hear more about your error the more you try to explain it.

Not only that, his Waffen SS buddie has to chime in like it
is a capital offense! :-)

Tsk, Miccolis is now under Typo Alert Status, condition Red.
Each and every typo HE makes will be FEATURED INEPTITUDES of
his own! Regardless of his 'explanations' of his typos, he
will be charged with violations of all mankind! :-)
Chimes against humanity!

HAR!!! :-) [Heil went to 'Ding Dong School'? :-)]

Sure, I did, Len. I'm the right age. Miss Frances was a favorite of
mine. Now what?

Dave K8MN