RadioBanter - View Single Post - OK...So What Are YOU Going To DO About It...?!?!

February 2nd 04, 03:40 PM

(William) wrote in message om...
(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com...
(William) wrote in message . com...

Steve, now that you're an NCI supporter, would you like to join?

I am not an NCI supporter...

Maybe not a supporter. "Defender" might have been a better word
choice.

Nor do I "defend" NCI or any of it's "policies". I realize there
are some well-meaning, well-intentioned folks in NCI who think they
are doing (did) the right thing. I respect them for standing up for
thier beliefs and using the democratic system the way it was meant to
be used, but therein ends any "mutual" understanding.

I am resigned to the fact that we've
tossed a major skill down the drain, and I'd just like to minimize the
damage.

Nope. Just an exam. Want to replace it with a stand alone exam on
rules and regs? Amateur history?

If "Amateur history" was able to allow folks with dissimilar
languages to communicate via 2-way radio, even in this most
rudimentary manner, then yes, I'd support it.

However it doesn't. Morse Code however, does.

And the mode still exists and can even be used on all amateur
allocations ('cept a little bit of 220).

I served in the Armed Forces to protect the "majority rules"
concept, and this is one of those times that I came out on the short
end of the stick. Oh well...Got to make the best of it.

Keep your chin up and your head down.

I wonder if the chips had fallen the other way if the NCI folks
would have been as accepting...?!?! I doubt it...liberals never do.
73

Steve, K4YZ