RadioBanter - View Single Post - Element 1, Code vs. No-code, and Dad

October 29th 03, 09:24 PM

In article ,
(N2EY) writes:

(Len Over 21) wrote in message
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In article ,
(N2EY)
writes:

Try not to strain yourself putting words into others' messages.

What "words have I put in others messages", Len?

Those following -

It's clear from your many, many posts here that you want amateur radio to
become a multiband version of cb.

That's just your DELUSION and fantasy.

Not at all. It's the sum total of what you've been preaching here for
years and years. It explains the motive behind every single post
you've made here.

Wrong. You are still in the delusion of living in PAST standards
and practices of amateur radio. Anything against your fraternal-
order idea of amateur radio is labeled by you as "wrong" or some
evil personified by Citizens Band Radio Service.

The FCC is not required to sanctify or regulate a fraternal order
as ordained by the ARRL. That is your fantasy and delusion.

Citizens Band Radio Service has been in existance for longer
than 45 years and several private land mobile radio services (now
collected under PLMRS) have been in existance longer than that.
Times have changed. ARRL can no longer assume guardianship
over US amateur radio service as it did before Internet and improved
citizen ability to communicate directly with the FCC. The OTHER
U.S. radio services have changed and adapted to modern times.

Why do you NEED all thsoe "classes" in an a voluntary, avocational
recreational radio activity? Is it just to give yourself an elitist "title
of nobility" to "sign" behind your name (or in lieu of it)? Do you
NEED the artificiality of class-distinction to "prove" yourself to the
world...or to prove you are "better" than others...so that you can
feel justified in putting down others?

It would seem that you DO have such a NEED.

I find all of radio and electronics in general to be a fascinating area
of technology, so much so that I became a hobbyist in that a long
time ago and made it my life's work...even though experienced and
with an aptitude for a totally different kind of work. But, you and
other "titled," self-important radio amateurs want to put that down,
stoutly maintaining an absolute rigidity to the artificiality of rank,
status, privilege AS IF amateur radio were the SAME as a guild or
union. Everyone (according to yourself) MUST follow the "rules,"
not the regulations, but the "rules" as laid down by one membership
organization which still is just a minority "representative" political
action entity.

Do not deny that ARRL is a political-interest group. Their federal
tax returns are evidence that they retain a lobbying service in DC
as well as a law firm. They are NOT a government entity, just a
large fraternal order that survives on publication and product
resale and advertising profits. ARRL deludes you and others into
thinking they are always "representative" of radio amateurs...but
over the years of successful brainwashing through self-promotion,
they remain a minority political entity on "representation."

You will not accept such a minority status yet it is obvious reality.
The FCC has recognized this some time ago but you still support
defend and sometimes "fight" for the ARRL on matters and blame
the FCC for your perceived "evils" while turning hypocritical and
extoling the ARRL as "doing the right thing" when decisions align
themselves with your ARRL-influenced personal opinions.

Case in point: As of the close of 28 October 2003, the FCC ECFS
had a total of 3,877 comments on 14 petitions for regulation
changes on retention (7) or elimination (7) of the morse code test
for U.S. amateur radio. Comments were from all over the nation,
individuals to groups, licensed and unlicensed in amateur radio.
There is far more access and FREEDOM for all citizens to make
our grievances known to our government...directly if we desire,
not having to use a "middleman" group to do our collective
communications...a "middleman" that pretends to be "representative
for all" yet is not, by all evidence, representative to any but a small
coterie within that organization.

You desire to have such commentary CLOSED to any but the elite
already-licensed. Such is against the very basic First Amendement
to the United States Constitution. The FCC is not obligated in any
way to sanctify its regulations in the maintenance of an essentially
private fraternal order. Yet you insist that this "fraternal order" MUST
be maintained. Others insist more fervently, ready to fight at
all costs. Such a "must" is delusional, fantasyland imagining.

Amateur radio is a voluntary, avocational, recreational activity done
for no pecuniary reason. A hobby. Fun. But some want to rule,
to regulate the "fun" solely for their self-interests. Not technical
regulations but the activity itself and this strange absolute NEED to
be just like a professional service group with rigid adherence to
activity rules, jargon, even paper forms ("official" radiogram blanks).
This strange NEED for rigid adherence extends to absolute honoring
of tradition AND an intolerance to anything new that threatens the
perceived glory and honor of any tradition or its history. All who
have any interest whatsoever MUST be licensed to the imaginary
"dedication and committment to the ARS community."

All who refuse to Believe in such a fantasy are heretics, lesser
humans, worthy of contempt by the self-perceived nobility...as
evidenced by all the archives in the Google.

The first message of this particular thread started off with an
emotion-loaded play to readers of a father (authority figure) that
was supposed to uphold tradition, honor, glory, etc. as a "positive
attribute" or "family value" to pass along to generations. Over
morse code proficiency that has been dropped or never considered
by every other radio service? That's fantasy, delusional thinking,
suitable only for fraternal orders looking for status quo stability.

My father and father-in-law would no doubt have great fun at such
"important family values" to pass on had they been alive today.
They were both born a year before the first radio signals crossed
the Atlantic and three years before the Wright brothers successfully
flew a heavier-than-air vehicle...and both saw the first humans set
foot on the moon by live television from a quarter million miles away.

Change happened in their lifetimes. Great, profound changes.
Change will continue to happen in many things and in many lives.
We can all adapt and meld with the future, become part of it, or
remain in the past in a fantasyland of old things, old ideas, old
standards, old skills that no longer apply to the majority living in
reality.

I am for the now, the future, reality and freedom. I will not live in
your delusional fantasyland. Neither will millions of others.

LHA