Subject: Let's debate: Should Amateur Radio be made a free for all?
From: Alun
Date: 5/8/2004 10:21 AM Central Standard Time
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(Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in
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Subject: Let's debate: Should Amateur Radio be made a free for all?
From: Alun
Date: 5/8/2004 9:30 AM Central Standard Time
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That would be me. Not just tapes, in fact I didn't find tapes to be a
good method of learning, but I've never attached a key to a rig. What
was the point of me learning 20wpm?

Uhhhhhhhhhh....passing Element 1C...?!?!

So let me rephrase that. Why should I have had to pass 1C to get the bottom
ends of the phone subbands? Actually, that's where the DX used to be, but
it seems to have moved up to avoid the 'hernia nets' that now seem to
occupy that spectrum.

Because at the time that was what was required to pass the level of
licensure you sought.

Obviously you WANTED that level of licensure because you did what you had
to do and got over it. The benefits outweighed the effort to obtain them.

How many people "want" to be doctors, airline pilots, bankers, etc, but
never get there because of the amount of education or training it takes to get
there?

Yes, some are hindered by financial or other "real world" hurdles, but
then too there are hundreds of stories of people who worked two-three
jobs...weathered divorces...single parenthood...etc and overcame those hurdles
to get what they wanted.

It's all a matter of what you want as opposed to what you're willing to do
to get it.

As for the "hernia nets", they aren't a factor for me...I don't find folks
who are predisposed to discussing thier gastrointestinal dysfunctions below the
phone subbands.

73

Steve, K4YZ