Len Over 21 wrote:

In article , Robert Casey
writes:

Len, just get the damm license.

Just for the purpose of settling a very few newsgrope irregulars
who are irritated by controversy? :-)

No, Len, to satisfy your several decades of self-declared interest in
amateur radio and to be able to hold your head up after your "Extra
right out of the box" boast.

Not a good reason "for the service!" :-)

It ain't that hard.

I'm aware of that. So is anyone in the public who cares to look.

:-)

Don't just read about it, Len. Experience it first hand.

Hell even 5wpm.

So, learning a useless skill is considered "important?"

If you want an HF amateur license, it is considered important. You
could always tackle a code free ticket though.

I've never had to learn or use any manual telegraphy in 51 years of
actual communicating on HF.

Then again, you've never held an amateur radio license.

Morse code skill is an anachronism.

Sure it is, Leonard. So is AM. So is SSB. So is baudot RTTY.

Only amateurs use it with any
regularity and then those are only a few amateurs, a minority.

Only a few amateurs using morse? You're as wrong about that as you were
about Fessenden.

I did it and I'm no good at sort of "motor skill" kind of thing.

Not a good reason for me to waste my time trying to re-enact
the past.

You have to get out more. Thousands and thousands of radio amateurs use
morse in the present.

Then get on the air some.

Been there, done that, from LF on up to microwaves.

Not as a radio amateur, you haven't.

Did it earlier this year using an SGC SG-2020 on HF. :-)
[also late last year, same rig...both times very legal!]

:-) :-) :-)

Then you can speak with some creditability
here and other forums on ham radio.

Impossible! "Those without an amateur license have zero-point-
zero experience, don't know nuthin, etc., etc., etc., etc." :-)

My friend Jack has a license and experience. You don't know Jack.

Ham radio works by different principles than all other radios.
That's what I'm told. I don't believe them, but lots of hams do.

Operating principles are not the sum total of amateur radio.

As far as morseodism is concerned, I'm an atheist. I don't
worship at the Church of St. Hiram. Put away your collection
plate and Him books.

I get it. Because you don't find anything in which to believe, the rest
of us aren't supposed to take part for fear of offending you. How very
PC.

Dave K8MN