In article , Dave Heil
writes after catching PMS from the gunnery nurse:

Len Over 21 wrote:

Alternative Universe Probable Truisms -

1. There would be NO ARRL...

2. There would be NO morse code test...

3. There would be NO tales of olde-tyme ham doings ...

4. The Titanic would have sunk anyway ...

5. Hallicrafters and National Radio and Heathkit would have gone
belly-up anyway...

6. Radio broadcasting would have become successful ...

7. Arthur Godfrey would still get his TV show cancelled...

8. The Federal Communications Commission would still exist on
approximately the same scale...

9. "CB" would have been created anyway...

10. Tens of thousands of electronic/radio hobbyists would be
bereft of Title

11. Leonard H. Anderson would still be on the outside looking in.

Only for AMATEUR radio.

There's a MUCH LARGER commercial and military world of radio,
Herr Robust. You've only seen a small part of it while in "the
foreign service."

Let's all hear it for those olde-tyme raddio hammes who've been
in ham radio forever and want to make everyone jump through the
same hoops they had to!

Good luck on that one, now...

LHA / WMD