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September 23rd 03, 06:34 AM

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(Len Over 21) writes:

Amateur radio operators have always dealt with the level of technology
available at their own particular slice in time.

"Spark" is outlawed, Larrah.

Which is just but one of the numerous reasons why I don't use it,
Lennie!

However, the one constant
has been the Morse/CW mode, which continues to be a practical,
effective, efficient, and universal mode of electronic communication
in spite of any and all other modes which have been invented in it's
wake.

Yes. Takes little brains to learn morse, just a LOT of practice...to
find that the rest of the radio world does NOT use it anymore.

Except for licensed radio amateurs, but I guess it would take one to
know one, wouldn't it, Lennie?

Your beloved on-off keying coding is no damn good if you can't get
your transmitter to work...and then you have to have another
morseman at the other end to understand your monotonic beeping.

Fortunately, my transmitter(s) work just fine, thanks!

The only radio people you can communicate with are other morsemen.

And other SSBmen, other PSK-31men, other FMmen, other AMmen,
other RTTYmen, other Packetmen, other Hellschreibermen, and, of
course, the SSB-, PSK-31-, FM-, AM-, RTTY-, Hellschreiber, etc.-YL's
using those modes. You should try it sometime!

And, as always, radio amateurs are not able to exploit the
many benefits and advantages of the Morse/CW mode unless they
learn the Morse code.

Your "benefits" are imaginary. Your "advantages" are imaginary.

And your concept of what I find "imaginary" is imaginary.

You are trying to sell a product that isn't being bought.

Except by tens of thousands of Morse/CW users!

You would do better selling snake oil or used cars.

Come to think of it, you probably ARE...

Well, I've already tried my hand at selling used cars, and showed some
definite ability in that particular endeavour. However, I've never been able
to detect a very high demand for snake oil -- in fact, if my memory
serves me correctly, you're the only one I've seen mention it lately.

Code testing requirements have always been
the means of providing the incentive to do so; in their absence, we will
see a decline in the use of this mode in the fullness of time.

Oh, is this an ENVIRONMENTAL or "greenie" issue to you?

If the nasty old government doesn't keep up the code test you won't
have anyone to play with on the radio?

That's not very likely in my own case, but for future radio amateurs,
it would be matter of increasing concern.

This is just plain 'ole reality.

Yes, Larrah, you show a glimmer of understanding...but cannot
understand that you are an endangered species which has NO
appreciable impact on the radio ecology.

With things going the way they are, Lennie, ALL radio amateurs now
have a dotted line forming around them. And, regardless of the way
the conventional wisdom is going, reduced licensing standards isn't
doing anything to alter that reality.

No tricks of logic will change it, either.

So, bottom line...YOU want a WELFARE handout by keeping the
code test so you can parade around like an amateur pooh-bah.

If that's what you think, then show me, using direct quotations, where
I have said that, and I'll admit to it. Otherwise, you're just blowing your
uusally foul-smelling smoke. Talk about "environmental" hazards...

You're weird, Larrah.

I'm an Amateur Radio Operator. A certain amount of "weirdness" comes
with that territory, but how do you explain YOUR weirdness, Lennie?

Too much monoxide inhalation on that bus of yours.

Maybe, but ever since they gave me my new bus last year, that problem
has been drastically reduced, and I'm showing definite signs of recovery.

73 de Larry, K3LT