Don't forget, too, when you drive to the testing site to take the morse
code
test you have to first hand-crank the engine of your horseless carriage to
get it started.

*OOOPS*, i'm sorry, that too is outdated. They have invented electrically
driven starters since then. Isn't it neat how old ways are replaced by new
more efficient & useful ones? *OOOOP*, my bad again... I forgot about
the PCTA crybabies.

Clint

Here we go again with this standard transmission crap ...this time it has
degenerated to starters ....

Clint's logic ... no cars today have crank starters ... therefore CW is in
that same category ...but wait ..why are there so many CW ham signals on the
air ... ????

Clint am I a "crybaby" because I see a useful skill i.e. the 2nd most used
amateur mode badmouthed in the most illogical , immature and counter
productive manner.

I really think that in any endeavor there are those for whatever reason like
"****ing in the punchbowl". I very rarely operate SSB, look at or transmit
pix, never work
moon bounce or hunt for transmitters or any of the myriad of sub-groups that
this service offers. But thank God that they are there ... a facet in the
jewel that are available to me when and if I desire.

Clint I certainly hope that when the test is dropped that the myriad of
those new ops will bring into play those new "electric starter" modes that
"will always get through". I personally would not bet the kids milk money
on that assumption.

73 God Bless KI3R Tom Popovic Belle Vernon PA