RadioBanter - View Single Post - Let's debate: Should Amateur Radio be made a free for all?

May 8th 04, 10:53 PM

"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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Alun wrote:

(William) wrote in
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Dave Heil wrote in message
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I have little sympathy for anyone who would claim that learning morse
at a speed of five words per minute is a lot of work or that it
requires a long time to learn.

Dave K8MN

Your sympathy was not solicited, and it or the lack of it doesn't
change the fact that for many, learning code at 5wpm is difficult and
takes a long time to learn. The real pity are all of the 20WPM
Code-Tape Extras that have never used code.

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?

What is the point of learning anything that you don't want to learn?.
Why should people learn to spell now that we have spell checking?

Since 90 percent of my time on the air is PSK31 why did I have to learn
about anything else?

- Mike KB3EIA -

How about the good feeling of knowing something that the vast majority of
humanity doesn't?

Dan/W4NTI