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June 9th 05, 06:05 AM

wrote:
From: John Smith on Jun 8, 5:35 pm

Yes.

Well, you cannot disguise the fact that the over 60 crowd just don't
have the energy or enthusiasm as the teenage to 30 crowd--or the fact
that these younger people are actively engaged in the research,
development and production phases of electronics. Why they may
effectively hang on limiting the hobby--this cannot not go on
indefinitely...

And, while it is true only those with a wet diaper can truly appreciate
change--change is in the wind... the next decade should provide a dip
in number of licenses which has never been seen before... this is only
the beginning...

The mighty macho morsemen cannot conceive of that. They are
immortal. They RULE. [they've said as much...]

However, "energy and enthusiasm" is a function of both individual
genes and mental outlook. "Enthusiasm" in half-century-old state-
of-the-art techiques and practices should be consigned to niche
nostalgia places, not kept as federal regulations.

Lennie...YOU are the person who ALWAYS reverts to tales of "half
century old state-of-the-art techniques and practices"...Not "us".

Many of the stratification crowd seem to hang onto their
"enthusiasm" of their young days as if it were a lifeline to
some imagined fountain of youth promising that they will
remain younger than springtime by holding to old paradigms.

Whew...Any windier than that and Goodyear might invite you over to
the flying field next time the blimp gets a little limp...

My own viewpoint is different. By virtue of being born when
I was...(SNIP)

Give you no more "perspective" on modern day Amateur Radio than
anyone else who can read about it in a magazine or on-line.

That IS the limits of your experience in Amateur Radio.

Others, the stratification crowd, the staunch defenders of the
status quo, demand a HALT to progress, NO CHANGE.

There goes Leoand H Anderson with more of his chronic lying.

Leonard H Anderson IS the only one in this forum who expresses
that ideal. Not a single person in this forum, including myself, has
EVER expressed a "NO CHANGE" position.

Keep all
nice and tidy and belonging just the way it was when they were
young.

...or we could all time-travel ourselves back to post-war Japan to
be rear-area radio mechanics of the 50's...Like Lennie does so often.

Why would a young person of today WANT to study morse code just
to communicate on HF?

Most that I've had contact with lately don't want to get on HF on
ANY mode...They are enthralled with EchoLink and the digital modes, all
of which can give them nearly the same worldwide communications
capability taht another $750 in equipment could get them.

(This is yet another of those "practical experiences" that
licensed Amateurs have that Lennie doesn't...)

A pair of FRS hand-helds costs only $50 maximum and
permits 5 mile two-way talking with isolation via digital mode.

BWWWWHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA
! ! ! ! ! !

MAYBE if one of them is on Racho Palo Verdes and the other on
Crestline, Lennie....

Everyone else is limited to about a 1/4 to 1/2 mile, despite the
advertising hype to the contrary.

(Even MORE "practical experience" that Lennie lacks....)

A cell phone with a built-in camera costs less than $100 and can
communicate anywhere within range of a cell site...to the rest
of the telephonic world.

Uh-huh...

For $30 to $50 a month...Plus other fees depending on who you
contract with. Skip a payment, and the only "pictures" you'll be
taking are with a disposable Wal-Mart 35mm camera.

Today's ham can purchase a top-of-the-line HF transceiver, fancy
antenna and tower, peripheral gizmos up the gazoo, all for less
than $5000.

Actually for less than that.

But, the olde-fahrts can sit back and dictate all MUST test for
the 161-year-old "technology" skill of morse code on that HF.
Incredible dichotomy. Incredible hypocrisy.

None of us is "dictating" that, Lennie.

Your NON-licensed commissioners in Washington and Gettysburg are
doing that.

There's your "dichotomy", Lennie.

Actuarial tables will manifest themselves. The mighty macho
morsemen WILL have their morse keys pried out of their cold,
dead fingers. Your prediction will come to pass. Perhaps
much sooner than they expected. RIP.

I've been praying for a stroke on Lanark Street. Maybe sooner
than later?

LenIdon'tHaveAlickOfPracticalExperienceInHamRadioA

Steve, K4YZ