I'd not sweat it Keith.

I've been a ham since 1977 and an SWL
since 1969. Seen alot of changes and many
personnas come and go.

The CW argument will always be the archtype of ham radio's
arrested culture as hams, for some reason that I still cannot
fathom, always feel themselves and their equipment to be
"above" everything and everyone else.

They (we) may have had a technical edge back in the late
60's and thru the 1970's when the guy "with the funny
antennas in his yard" was the only person on the block who
could communicate around the world.

Today we are a curiosity, and an obsolete one at that.
Some of us still hold onto the ancient dogma of CW
or die, others new to the hobby are more progressive.
The bottom line however is that technology has passed
us by a very long time ago.

Our neighbor who has a Nextel phone with the iDEN
"walkie talkie" feature activated hanging on his belt and
a wireless ISP link for his laptop in his car is so far
ahead of us technologically that it's foolish to think that
hams (except for a very few) will ever apply such technology
to our ancient SSB radios and older HF/VHF band allocations.

We used to be unique, in that we could step beyond the
telephone to make a "wireless" long distance telephone
call. Today, anyone with inexpensive technology and a
Monthly Plan can run circles around us as far as communication
is concerned...

True, in an emergency we will be needed, and when the Sats
or Trunks or Links go down we may still be able to communicate
but there will still be those who insist on using the 80+ yer
old ARRL Message Radiogram Traffic method, and CW, while
the public looks at us, scratches their head, has a laugh, get's
bored and goes back home....

Buggy whips and crank start cars. Calling CQ...CQ...
Looks like Wayne Green was far ahead of his time all along
in those long-winded editorials in 73 that I love to pick up and
read today in retrospect/hindsight...

Ken : ) : ) : )

ps: In one of Bin Laden's grainy videos from his former
Afganistan training camp, you could see him holding an
HT with a telescopic antanna. If you look *real close*
and freeze the frame, you can make out that the radio
he is using is a vintage Icom IC-2AT. I bet one of his
friends bought it for him at Dayton or mail order. rotflmao

..... .. .... ..

"Keith" wrote in message
...


This is some of the fan mail I have received. I actually have people
comparing
me to Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists. I like to think of promoting
the
elimination of horse and buggy morse code technology testing and
requirements
as liberating people that were once required to ride in the back of the
bus.
I'm a Rosa Parks, not a Osama Bin Laden.
Oh no, they are going to turn me into the mighty Hollingsworth.

JESUS H. CHRIST


From: "Brandon Coughlin"
To: ,

Subject: No Code Tech Protest Aug 1st
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:12:47 -0700
Message-ID:

Let's see here....

September 11, 2001

As I recall, the attacks on our soil were termed "protests" because
Al-Queda doesn't like our freedoms and our religions. So you consider
those types of protests acceptable as well because "protests are the
American way"? Terry echos my thoughts - Protests are the American
way...
peaceful, legal protests.


Hostname: dsc01-ati-ga-3-43.rasserver.net
IP Address: 206.215.212.43

Message-ID: m
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:54:31 -0700
Reply-To: foon boss
From: foon boss
Subject: Kieth Kywatt's (AC7XC) - Planned "Disruption of the
Amatur band"
Aug. 1 2003
Comments: To: , ,
Comments: cc: ,
To:

Kieth E. Wyatt,
I'm glad you let us (and Riley Hollingsworth, FCC Special Counsel &
ARRL )
know about your planned "Civil Disobediance" and "Disruption of the
Amatur Band". Since this a violation of Section 97.101(d) of the
Commission's Rules that prohibits amateur operators from willfully or
maliciously interfering with or causing interference to any radio
communication or signal. 47 C.F.R. § 97.101(d). the FCC Enforcement
division & ARRL will be very intrested in your activites.

I just want verify that your call is still AC7XC ( QRZ Look-up
http://www.qrz.com/callsign.html?callsign=ac7xc+ ) and your website is
http://www.kilowatt-radio.org/ is that correct? I just want to save
Mr.Riley Hollingsworth, FCC Special Counsel & the ARRL some work. You
can
now look forward to expressing your views up close and in person to
Mr.Riley Hollingsworth, FCC Special Counsel.


================================================== ================

From: 1K Watt
5:19 AM

Subject: No Code Tech Protest Aug 1st
To:



Let the FCC know that they can no longer keep you from your right to
use
the ten meter band allocation if you are a technician licensee. The
international requirement for morse code has been removed and there is
no
such thing as a technician plus license. You don't have to use your
identity, but no code technicians need to finally speak out to the FCC
they will no longer be oppressed by rules designed for the stone age of
electronic technology. Get on the air at 6pm local time on August 1st
or
if the band is open any time to make contacts in the 28.300-28.500 MHz
that is allocated to technicians for voice. Or if you have a computer
you
can use the allocated technician CW bands to send and receive morse
code.
Currently the FCC and ARRL want to drag this morse code requirement out
for one or two years while they put BPL and other technology on the
fast
track. I will be on the air and I hope 10,000 or more no code
technicians
will join me. I guess Hollingsworth will have to require 10,000 people
to
turn in their CW proficiency certificate if YOU will join us. The morse
code game is over and I'm not driving 55 when the speed limit is really
70
mph and the government hasn't changed the signs yet. Just go by the
limitation of your technician license and don't go overboard, we want
to
show that just because we didn't pass some dinosaur morse code test
that
we are bad operators.


Get on 28.306 USB at 6 PM local time to talk with other no code tech's
that are protesting the FCC and ARRL stupidity.




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"Radio Patagonia" wrote in
:

I'd not sweat it Keith.

I've been a ham since 1977 and an SWL
since 1969. Seen alot of changes and many
personnas come and go.

The CW argument will always be the archtype of ham radio's
arrested culture as hams, for some reason that I still cannot
fathom, always feel themselves and their equipment to be
"above" everything and everyone else.

They (we) may have had a technical edge back in the late
60's and thru the 1970's when the guy "with the funny
antennas in his yard" was the only person on the block who
could communicate around the world.

Today we are a curiosity, and an obsolete one at that.
Some of us still hold onto the ancient dogma of CW
or die, others new to the hobby are more progressive.
The bottom line however is that technology has passed
us by a very long time ago.

Our neighbor who has a Nextel phone with the iDEN
"walkie talkie" feature activated hanging on his belt and
a wireless ISP link for his laptop in his car is so far
ahead of us technologically that it's foolish to think that
hams (except for a very few) will ever apply such technology
to our ancient SSB radios and older HF/VHF band allocations.

We used to be unique, in that we could step beyond the
telephone to make a "wireless" long distance telephone
call. Today, anyone with inexpensive technology and a
Monthly Plan can run circles around us as far as communication
is concerned...

True, in an emergency we will be needed, and when the Sats
or Trunks or Links go down we may still be able to communicate
but there will still be those who insist on using the 80+ yer
old ARRL Message Radiogram Traffic method, and CW, while
the public looks at us, scratches their head, has a laugh, get's
bored and goes back home....

Buggy whips and crank start cars. Calling CQ...CQ...
Looks like Wayne Green was far ahead of his time all along
in those long-winded editorials in 73 that I love to pick up and
read today in retrospect/hindsight...

Ken : ) : ) : )

ps: In one of Bin Laden's grainy videos from his former
Afganistan training camp, you could see him holding an
HT with a telescopic antanna. If you look *real close*
and freeze the frame, you can make out that the radio
he is using is a vintage Icom IC-2AT. I bet one of his
friends bought it for him at Dayton or mail order. rotflmao

.... .. .... ..

"Keith" wrote in message
...


This is some of the fan mail I have received. I actually have people
comparing me to Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists. I like to think
of promoting the elimination of horse and buggy morse code technology
testing and requirements as liberating people that were once required
to ride in the back of the bus.
I'm a Rosa Parks, not a Osama Bin Laden.
Oh no, they are going to turn me into the mighty Hollingsworth.

JESUS H. CHRIST


From: "Brandon Coughlin"
To: ,
Subject: No Code Tech Protest Aug 1st
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:12:47 -0700
Message-ID:

Let's see here....

September 11, 2001

As I recall, the attacks on our soil were termed "protests" because
Al-Queda doesn't like our freedoms and our religions. So you
consider those types of protests acceptable as well because
"protests are the American way"? Terry echos my thoughts - Protests
are the American way... peaceful, legal protests.


Hostname: dsc01-ati-ga-3-43.rasserver.net
IP Address: 206.215.212.43

Message-ID: m
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:54:31 -0700
Reply-To: foon boss
From: foon boss
Subject: Kieth Kywatt's (AC7XC) - Planned "Disruption of the
Amatur band"
Aug. 1 2003
Comments: To: , ,
Comments: cc: ,
To:

Kieth E. Wyatt,
I'm glad you let us (and Riley Hollingsworth, FCC Special Counsel &
ARRL ) know about your planned "Civil Disobediance" and "Disruption
of the Amatur Band". Since this a violation of Section 97.101(d) of
the Commission's Rules that prohibits amateur operators from
willfully or maliciously interfering with or causing interference to
any radio communication or signal. 47 C.F.R. § 97.101(d). the FCC
Enforcement division & ARRL will be very intrested in your
activites.

I just want verify that your call is still AC7XC ( QRZ Look-up
http://www.qrz.com/callsign.html?callsign=ac7xc+ ) and your website
is http://www.kilowatt-radio.org/ is that correct? I just want to
save Mr.Riley Hollingsworth, FCC Special Counsel & the ARRL some
work. You can now look forward to expressing your views up close and
in person to Mr.Riley Hollingsworth, FCC Special Counsel.


================================================== ================

From: 1K Watt
5:19 AM

Subject: No Code Tech Protest Aug 1st
To:



Let the FCC know that they can no longer keep you from your right to
use the ten meter band allocation if you are a technician licensee.
The international requirement for morse code has been removed and
there is no such thing as a technician plus license. You don't have
to use your identity, but no code technicians need to finally speak
out to the FCC they will no longer be oppressed by rules designed
for the stone age of electronic technology. Get on the air at 6pm
local time on August 1st or if the band is open any time to make
contacts in the 28.300-28.500 MHz that is allocated to technicians
for voice. Or if you have a computer you can use the allocated
technician CW bands to send and receive morse code. Currently the
FCC and ARRL want to drag this morse code requirement out for one or
two years while they put BPL and other technology on the fast track.
I will be on the air and I hope 10,000 or more no code technicians
will join me. I guess Hollingsworth will have to require 10,000
people to turn in their CW proficiency certificate if YOU will join
us. The morse code game is over and I'm not driving 55 when the
speed limit is really 70 mph and the government hasn't changed
the signs yet. Just go by the limitation of your technician license
and don't go overboard, we want to show that just because we didn't
pass some dinosaur morse code test that we are bad operators.


Get on 28.306 USB at 6 PM local time to talk with other no code
tech's that are protesting the FCC and ARRL stupidity.




---------------------------------
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Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software


--
The Radio Page Ham, Police Scanner, Shortwave and more.
http://www.kilowatt-radio.org/



I was watching the BBC news on PBS last night and they said something
about the 'close family relationship between the Bushes and the Bin
Ladens'. Does anyone one know what that's about? As far as I know the Bin
ladens are in construction and are/were based in Boston, Mass and in
Saudi. As opposed to Texas oilmen.