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June 12th 05, 05:31 PM
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Alun L. Palmer wrote: Mike Coslo wrote in : wrote: Alun L. Palmer wrote: "K=D8HB" wrote in news:7UEqe.2534$hK3.1424 : "bb" wrote Your strangle hold on the amateur service may not end until the actuarial tables kick in, but they will end. Jim has a "strangle hold" on ham radio? Gee, I didn't know! Hey, Jim --- loosen up and let me breathe! did dit ----- Reverse Fransworth de Hans, K0HB It occurs to me that the references to "actuarial tables" is a backhanded way of telling me to drop dead.... Not Jim specifically, but all the Pro Code Test Advocates (PCTA). I am a little surprised that Alun would be so prejudiced as to declare that all PCTAs think exactly the same. Makes it a lot easier to demonize than, eh? It isn't just you. I think exactly the same way as you, and say Larry Roll, and ALL the other PCTAs, in his estimation. Bad show! It was aimed straight at me. I think it was Goethe who said something about new ideas not being accepted until those who cling to the old ones have died. That claim is incorrect. He did however, say "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." It has to be said that there is some truth in that. Not much, if any. Not all new ideas are good ideas, either. I think that the FCC will abolish the code test before we get that far, though. They are taking their sweet time, though. Yep - and that may or may not be significant. My XYL is waiting on this event to go for her General, so that's my main interest. With all due respect - it's been five years plus since the 2000 restructuring made 5 wpm the only code test. Most people can learn code well enough to pass that test in 4-6 weeks of practicing about a half-hour a day. 5 years lost. So is waiting all this time a matter of high principles, or is it a lack of real interest? - Mike KB3EIA - It's not a matter of how they think, but just which side of the fence they are on. On one particular issue. Their numbers will decline with attrition, and then it will show up as an apparent shift of opinion. The presumption is that the newcomers will have a higher percentage of NCTA folks than currently exists. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't. Back in 1996, the ARRL-sponsored READEX poll on various codetest issues showed that the most procodetest age group was the *youngest* hams.=20 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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