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May 28th 05, 09:07 PM

From: on Fri 27 May 2005 15:19

Mike Coslo wrote:
wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote:

Here's another way to look at it:

Suppose you trained (like I did) to run a 26.22 mile marathon. And
suppose you completed a couple of them, earning the right to describe
yourself as a marathon runner.

Now suppose some people complained that the marathon distance was too
long, and kept out too many. So they get the marathon distance changed
to 5 miles, and call themselves marathon runners too.

How would that make you feel?

Awwwwwwww...ain't that a darn shame?!?

Outside of starting with the letter M, I don't see ANY
comparison of marathon running to morse code.

The FCC doesn't require ANY athletic skill/talent/expertise
to get ANY radio operator license.

Sunnuvagun! [TM Hans Brakob, more or less]

Suppose you were an original radio amateur like thousands that
came before you, training and working real hard to learn and
be expert in SPARK transmitter technology...then the nasty
federal authorities BANNED SPARK forever! And those darn feds
had the NERVE to allow newcomers into ham radio without ANY
knowledge or experience of SPARK! SPARK was the BEGINNING
for hundreds of early radio amateurs in the USA! BASIC!

FAX me your TS card, I'll punch it...you poor baby...