RadioBanter - View Single Post - FCC Morse, restructuring proposals could hit the street by mid-year

March 5th 05, 04:18 AM

wrote:

Brian Burke wrote on Thurs, Mar 3 2005 7:06 pm concerning the Avenging
Angle's further adventures in "waste of time":

K4YZ wrote:
robert casey wrote:
N2EY wrote:

Nor merit badges. The Amateur Radio Service is not the Boy Scouts.
The FCC is not BSA Headquarters.

Guess who used to remark that Boy Scout leaders are pedophiles?
:-)

Can't have any pedophiles in ham radio, no sir!

Can you clear this up for us, Leonard? Are you actually FOR pedophiles
in amateur radio or anywhere else?

All hams must be
white males of deeply-rooted conservative everything rigidly
preserving the traditions, standards, and practices of the 1930s.

There are hams of different races, genders, political philosophies and
economic backgrounds. You aren't among them.

But they ARE in the business of making sure that thier rules
meet
the test of the enabling regulations.

They should start with the "rule" requiring a Morse Code Exam at 5WPM
refer to another "rule" defining Morse Code and how to derive a 5WPM
rate. Then then need to explain how a 13-15WPM character rate can be
legal for a 5WPM exam. Or not.

I rather think that the FCC (that all-powerful adjunct secondary to
the real leader of American ham radio, ARRL) cares much about
a bunch of amateurs fooling around in a hobby activity.

The FCC is an agency. An agency doesn't think. There are people
employed in it who do that. I'm pleased that you believe the FCC cares
about radio amateurs though.

It's been
nearly two years since the first of those 18 petitions arrived at
the
FCC and the conservative-traditionalists mounted much cross-fire
to those nasty radicals wanting dirty, rotten change (hack, ptui)
from divine, blessed, noble olde-tyme regulations. Code MUST
stay! It is "right!" :-)

You've really worked yourself into a froth today, old timer. Too much
caffeine?

Dave K8MN