In article , Dave Heil
writes:

N2EY wrote:

Dave Heil wrote in message
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Len Over 21 wrote:

In article , Dave Heil

writes:

Len Over 21 wrote:

Problem is that Believers are in the minority...but they cannot
ever
see that or they are so set that what they think is the absolute
"they know what is best."

But, Len, you think you know what is best for amateur radio and you
aren't even involved. You're pretty much of a minority.

I've not claimed to "know what is best for amateur radio."

That's YOUR claim.

That isn't correct, Leonard.

Dave,

A bit of clarification.

Mr. Anderson has repeatedly expounded his views on a wide range of
topics both here and in voluminous, repetitive comments to the FCC.
But I don't recall him ever claiming that they were "what is best for
amateur radio" or that he even knows "what is best for amateur radio."

Jim, I have to disagree. The very fact that Len submitted his ideas on
morse testing and a minimum age for amateur radio licensing to the
Commission demonstrates that he believes that he knows what is best for
amateur radio, in which he has never been a participant.

Let me state it another way.

Suppose someone thought that "what was best for amateur radio" was for the
service as we know it to die out. Do you think they'd actually come right out
and say that?

Leonard has, on occasion, tried to have it both ways.

Not "on occasion". Frequently.

He has told us
that he was going for an "Extra right out of the box" and, in a
turnabout, that he really isn't interested in obtaining an amateur radio
license.

Of course! Those darn new question pools.....!

Do you really think anything he writes here is to be taken seriously? Or, for
that matter, anything he writes?

He has written of his decades-long interest but he has never
even attempted to obtain even a code free ticket.

Because radio isn't his interest or his hobby. His hobby is wasting time - your
time.

Truth is, when I'm chasing S92SS on 160, when I'm checking into the WV
Fone Net or when I'm reading the latest QST, I don't give Leonard a
thought.

Nor do I.

Ever read "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand? There's a great little scene where
the hero (Howard Roark, a talented architect) meets his nemesis (Ellsworth
Toohey, an architectural critic whose only talent is clever wordsmithing that
denigrates others' accomplishments . Toohey is the kind of fellow who would
refer to others as "Nursie", "Kolonel Klunk" and "Rev. Jim"..). Toohey wants to
destroy Roark, and tries all sorts of tricks to ruin him. Toohey has never been
an architect - he's not involved - but through various tricks he's manuevered
himself into being a commentator on architecture.

They meet when Roark goes to see a building which he (Roark) had designed, but
which Toohey had caused to be modified horribly - at Roark's expense. Toohey
talks a lot and finally asks Roark what he thinks of him.

Roark replies "But I don't think of you"

Sound familiar?

He wasn't a part of amateur radio's past, isn't part of its
present and, I'm guessing, won't be part of its future.

Of course not! That isn't his goal.

Remember the profile? Have you seen any behavior that doesn't match that
profile?

73 de Jim, N2EY