"James King" wrote in message newspsl8nwpaa2sj4v0@dad...
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:34:32 -0500, Dee Flint
wrote:

I've never operated satellite and never intend to and have no interest in
ever doing so. Yet I had to answer questions on it. Do I think it
should
be taken out of the test? No, because it is something allowed by my
privileges.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE


Please demonstrate your knowledge of Sat - data - sctv abilities. For your
license that is. not just a passing knowledge in the topic but send and
receive a 1 minute transmission of each.

CW has its place in amateur radio... in history.

When code was the primary means of transmitting a message, demonstrating
your skill prior to getting your lic. was a great idea.

That time has passed.

As far as I know, no bandwidth has been off-limits to CW. Makes me wonder
at what your rail about.

I wasn't railing at anything. I was merely commenting that not wanting to
take a test element is not a justification for eliminating it. The argument
that you won't use it is also invalid as one cannot predict the future or
changes in interest. There are far better reasons to eliminate it than
those two arguments. Though I readily admit that I am a proponent of
keeping the test there are reasons that should at least be evaluated and
those that are pure hogwash (i.e. not wanting to or not thinking they will
use it).

Demonstrating satellite, data, or sctv abilities is not practical in a
testing environment. The test teams can't afford to have those facilities
and even in the days of the FCC testing, they did not have such facilities.

By the way, I've already operated data modes and found them utterly boring
and gave them up. Satellite and SCTV are not attractive enough to me to
invest money in them.

The question should be: is CW one of the fundamentals of amateur radio? If
so, it should be a requirement somewhere along the line. Age of the mode is
irrelevant.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE