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July 16th 04, 01:17 AM

(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
In article , "Dee D. Flint" Mama Dee
speaking to her children writes:

"N2EY" wrote in message
...
In article , Robert Casey
writes:

Hams - old and new - didn't change the exam procedures. Neither did
ARRL, NCI, NCVEC or any other ham group. FCC did, because it saved
them resources.

We aren't going to a system other than multiple-choice
published-Q&A-pool exams in the foreseeable future. Just not gonna
happen.

ANd then there's the question of what knowledge should be expected from
applicants anyway. Does it really require more knowledge and skill to
operate on 14.167 vs 14.344?

More spectrum is simply the reward system in use. It was chosen in large
part
because it's easy to enforce.

Specially now that enforcement is a rare thing, i.e., the last 30
years or so.

Not only was it easy to enforce but it was selected because it was a
desireable enough reward that people would put in the training to get it.

Utter nonsense, Mama Dee. Spin-like rationalization.

Yep, that's absolute crap.

One license would be even easier to not enforce.

AMATEUR radio is a hobby, not a national service, not an arm of the
United States Navy or the rest of the military, and not a public safety
organization. Just a hobby involving radio.

It can be a service, and many actually do dedicate themselves to that
service. They train and practice, take turns at being NCS, and
affiliate with county emergency offices and the American Red Cross.

But there is a large contingent that brags about copying an ARRL
message before field day starts, how they can send code so poorly that
a NCT with an electronic reader cannot copy, etc, etc, etc. Shining
examples of service.

AMATEUR radio long ago CEASED to be a "pool of experienced morse
operators" for any national need. The nation does NOT need morse
operators, haven't for a long time.

But when the aliens arrive and don't know the code... they'll be in
for a rude awakening. We'll have 'em right where we want 'em!

Most rewards in the real world have little relationship to the work
requested.

More spin crappola. The influential morsemen at the League
managed to carve out a separate little morse playground for
themselves with all sorts of fatuous phrases of "national need" and
"importance of a pool of trained operators" and the FCC caved in
to their demands.

I think it's just a legacy carry-over from a time when it was
necessary and useful. Those days are long past being necessary.

You see it in the home too. Kid asks, "Dad can I borrow the
car?" Parent replies, "After you mow the front & back lawn and run the
edger." There is absolutely no relationship between the two activities.
The kid gets a highly desired reward for work that he/she probably doesn't
care to do but does it anyway to get the reward.

So, the League is a surrogate parent?!? I don't think so.

Maybe the FCC? Some here obviously need a little extra parenting.

Like Old Yeller and Old Yeller Teeth Kelly.

Are all the Amateur Extras surrogate parents now? I don't think so.

I hope not.

Dee, quit this infernal nattering about "parentage" and ham radio.

Kind of irritating, huh?

Quit trying to sound off like you've got an influential pair.

Maybe somehow she got hold of 146.34/94.

You aren't
a radioactive au pair and this ain't the Children's Hour (even is some of
the other extras act like children).

Sherry and Lambchop?

Just face the reality of the matter. Morsemen got their little CW
playground and should be happy. Professional communicators they
ain't, even if they want, desperately, to be oh, so very pro.

They're always welcome to pay some COLEM $90 for random groups of
five.