"Dick Carroll" wrote in message
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Clint wrote:

He's trying to blanket the topic anyway....
NCI isn't trying to stop or ban the use of morse
code on the airwaves, they simply understand that
the testing of morse code no longer falls within
the scope and original intent of ham radio.. which
is to keep the art of radio alive and expand it's use,

The operative phrase here is "expand its use", not diminish
it by refusing to learn the Most Basic Radiocommunications Mode.

It is NOT refusing to learn...it is simply allowing the
choice to be made by each individual. There is no
reason for everyone on HF to know morse as was
well shown by the lack of any credible reasons given to the
FCC in 98-143.

etc., and, well, logic there says that if morse code
is being abandoned left and right in the radio world
in favor of new means of communication,

When you finally get around to getting a radio that will actually
work on HF, take a listen to the lower end of any band and report
back what you find. Then you might want to 'accurize' that statemtent.

Let's see...a mix of morse and data. Your point?
The choice then, depending on what one wants to do,
is to learn and use morse IF they want to make those contacts.
If not, who cares? So what?

than you
you are no longer adhereing or supporting this
doctrine of ham radio.

And of course YOU and NCI are, to hear your story.

How is he or NCI not adhereing to the doctrine of ham
radio?

WRONG story, full of total inaccuracies which you have
no interest in correcting. Who do you suppose is involved
in 'advancing late digital modes'? CLUE: It's not Carl Stevenson,
Chief Executive of NCI, you see
he's too busy ratchetjawing on SSB now that he's finally found a
license that allows it!

Even if true, so what?

Plus, the real reason the old buzzards want to keep
it around is simple but non well-founded.. "I did
it, so YOU should have to!"

There is an unintended element of truth in what you say.

At least you admit it. that's some progress.

WE had to
learn radio's most basic mode, and there exists no good reason why
you shouldn't have to learn it also if you aspire to a full-privileges
ham raduio license.

BZZZT - WRONG!! The burden of proof was on you and other
PCTA's to justify exactly WHY hams should learn it. You failed
to do so during the 98-143 comment phase as is well
documented in the FCC's R&O for 98-143.

Even if I take your challenge at face value, the
simple answer is that the reason every HF shouldn't have to
learn morse is because there's no justifiable reason,
rational or need for it.

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK