"Jerry Oxendine" wrote in
message
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What the anti-code code folks want is the same
anarchy that prevails on
the CB band.

Unless you're a proven mind reader Jerry I fail to
see how you can make such a wild statement and
pass it off as the truth.

Trouble is, they are not smart enough to realize
that the
result would be worse than the cu

All of the bickering and in-fighting over the
issue is worse than anything that will come as the
result of the dropping of the CW requirement.

when they finally finished ruining
radio and making it unusable, they would wish
that there had been some kind
of order after they can't talk across town for
the keyclowns.

The same crapola was repeated time and again about
the restructuring of the ARS, and guess what?
Things turned out just fine. I don't see anything
going down the drain with the removal of the CW
testing requirement other than another issue that
is no longer necessary to fight over.

It isn't a
matter of whether there is a code requirement or
not, it is a matter of
what they ultimately want:

It's a simple change in techinical requirements.
Nobody tests to see if you can properly saddle and
ride a horse just to get a driver's license.
Change happens and some people just can't seem to
get with the program.

Next organization to pop up will be NTI--No Test
International. Just go to
Wal-
mart or Bubba's CB shop and VOILA--"Ah'm one of
them 'ere 'good' operators,
thar, tan fer thar?"

Well Jerry I do have an issue with the written
exams. I am one of those in favor of NOT
publishing the question pool along with the
correct answers. When you have 9 year old kids
passing the written Extra exam because they simply
memorized the correct answers it is of far more
concern that if one can bang away at a key trying
to send CW. I'll bet those 9 year old Extras can't
even identify which end of a flashlight battery is
the positive and negative terminals because they
really don't undersand the material. I brought
this whole issue up in the policy news group a few
years ago after QST ran an article about how some
Ham "computer trained", i.e. used computer
generated test exams, on his 9 year kid to the
point where she could pass the written exams from
memory.

I think it's a real shame that so many Hams waste
their time arguing about CW testing when the
larger picture is that far to many hams don't have
a clue about how their rice-box-radios even work
internally. So you have the situation where Hams
believe it necessary to be CW proficient, but OK
to be technical ignorant because they simply
memorized their way through passing the exams.


--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

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