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"robert casey" wrote in message
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Earn your priviliges. It isn't impossible.


Just be sure that the things one needs to do to earn the
privileges are revalent to modern ham radio.

Why should ham radio be different than other activities? Most of
the things we do to gain privileges in this world are not
relevant to the privilege itself.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE




Oh, so everything else is messed up, so ham radio should be messed
up too? Even if I thought it were true, that would still be the
worst argument I have heard yet, ROTFLMAO!



It does not mean that things are messed up. It is simply a fact
that a very effective way to motivate people to do something that
they don't want to do is to tie it to a privilege that they very
much want. Parents do it all the time.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE




So treat prospective hams like errant children?

No not at all. Let's use a workplace example instead. Many people,
even if they like their jobs, do have elements of the work they don't
like. However they get a reward or privilege in the form of money for
performing those elements.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE




And Morse isn't an element of my operating, but I had to take a test
in it. That's like having to take a typing test and then having a
secretary to do your typing.

Well that example proves the point that you don't know what you may
need or want in the future as secretaries are now going the way of the
dodo bird in large part. Almost all employees that have a need to do
correspondence do their own these days in any company that I have been
in. The company I work for right now let their last secretary go about
four years ago.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE





Maybe that's a poor example. Perhaps it's more like learning typing to be a
basketball player.