From: John Smith on Thurs, Nov 30 2006 9:01 pm

Slow Code wrote:

We dare not let Lenny and the rest of the dumb-it-down crowd win.

SC:

Sometimes I am convinced that you are an excellent "satire comedian."
Other times, you have me convinced you are for real. Sometimes you have
me busting a gut and laughing until tears come, other times you yank my
heart-stings in pity.

Take this last post of your, it can be viewed as tongue-in-cheek satire,
or, it can be viewed as insane rant.

I vote for "insane rant." :-)

Certainly you cannot place much importance on CW. Amateurs have a real
purpose, to expand radio on ALL frontiers. Help in the community, help
in educating the youth in radio, help in disasters, help in developing
techniques, equip., theory development, etc. (the list really goes
on-and-on here)

I disagree somewhat there.

For one thing, a HOBBY (which is what amateur radio really is)
has only one purpose: To be fun to do, an enjoyable pastime.
For many it has a fascination about it, a quasi-magical
quality of humans being able to communicate far beyond their
natural means...using technologies that are abstract and
unseen by natural senses.

Beyond that, though, I'd say the "educating youth, help in
disasters," etc., is a lot of bull**** self-serving, self-
immortalizing PROPAGANDA. Such propaganda is a cover-up for
just having personal fun OR, more likely, personal bunting
to festoon themselves as "hero/savior/genius/savant/expert" so
that they can APPEAR as Better Than Others.

So, when you go crying "the sky is falling" over amateur radio
progressing and dropping an ancient tradition of morse testing, how can
any logical mind view you as NOT being self-serving, how can anyone take
you seriously at all?

I certainly don't take him as "serious." :-)

Are you a con man attempting to sell us the idea
that you really see great benefit in CW?

I doubt that. When the rest of the radio world has GIVEN UP
on using morse code mode, trying to be a con man for something
obsolete is DUMB.

You see CW as being a real barrier, something that many who desperately
want to become amateurs will avoid and by so avoiding fail to obtain an
amateur license. Certainly you cannot really believe that; you can see
how people would view you as deranged if you held such views, can't you?

Blowcode isn't deranged, he seems FRUSTRATED. He is one
of many humans needing some exclusitivy, some recognition
for what he thinks is a Real Accomplishment. He doesn't
seem to be able to keep up with technology (he is dumbed-
down on theory) so he decries no-coders as "dumbed down."
Psychological Transferance. Castigating others for his
own inability to keep up wih already-changed times.

I think as a young man, you viewed amateurs in some form of hero
worship. I think you viewed them as larger than life. I am afraid that
once you obtained your license, these fantasies did not fade. Indeed,
you wove these fantasies into your ego and your ego became dependent on
your amateur license hanging on your wall. You recognized that if a
very large number of people had amateur licenses (say the same number
who hold fishing licenses or drivers licenses or contracting licenses,
etc.) your feeling of being "special" would go away.

Blowcode isn't the only victim of that very-correct
observation, John.


So, now we arrive here. And, you are indeed correct, CW does make some
shy away from amateur radio. The reward of having an amateur license is
just not big enough for them to learn a set of dits and dahs to send
messages with, frankly, I see Einstein never bothered. I guess you look
at this as a "winning" situation, I do not. I look at it as a evil
self-centered plan which you and others are engaged in to limit amateur
radio, and it just kind-of-got-that-way because no one has taken you to
task.

These morsemen have been greatly aided by the obvious pro-
code propaganda pushed by the ARRL for decades. Since the
ARRL is virtually the sole source of amateur radio
information in the USA, the League could easily "condition
the minds" (i.e., brainwash) of amateurs and would-be amateurs.

It's not an evil or even unethical act by the League. It is
more of a survival syndrome of that membership organization,
becoming the Top by making members feel good to join. Hams
could read of OTHERS' accomplishments and feel good about
themselves even if they've never been able to do such things.
The better they feel, the more likely they will join and/or
buy the products that causes the profit that enables the
League to do all those "services" for hams.


In all your rants I see no real reasons for maintaining the CW
requirement. In fact, when you are hard pressed and under attack, you
admit to having your self-centered self at the core of you manipulations.

I don't see any overt "core" there. Blowcode castigates
the no-coders just on general bigot principles. He IS a
bigot in my book. A crude, obnoxious, only-I-know-what-
is-right bigot. Morse merde.

regards,
LA