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June 15th 05, 01:37 AM

From: on Tues 14 Jun 2005 09:08

John Smith wrote:
I think most of those groups progressive and open to change--this alone
would make classification as a cult difficult...

Try selling the NRA on the idea that the Second Amendment should be
repealed.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. THIS newsgroup is NOT about owning personal
firearms. This newsgroup seems devoted to Michael Jackson. :-)

Try selling NCI on the idea that *some* code testing is OK.

No Code International was found for the express purpose of
ELIMINATING the morse code test. Why should they "change" and
do like you wish them to do?

However, the ARRL with un-moving devotion to its "principles" and the
staunch "unwillingness" to change is what makes it more appropriate to
such classification...

The ARRL is as "open to change" (if not more so) as any of the
organizations named.

Total and complete bull****, . The ARRL is about as
hidebound to the status quo as is possible for the olde-tyme
league leaders to be and still be human. That is abundantly
clear in their publications, periodicals, and whatnot output in
at least the last half century!

The league WILL support the law as it is written. It must. That
is PC. Beyond that, the league sits on their collective olde-tyme
duffs, trying to keep the status at the quo of the core membership.
the Believers.

The ARRL has been pushing for a revision of the rules to classify
signals by bandwidth rather than content, and to free up old
technical limitations. What other group has put forth such a
proposal?

What "other group" is there in the USA posing as "representative
of 'all' amateurs?" [ain't none]

What has the mighty league DONE in all its "pushing" since 1979?
It couldn't defeat Access BPL. It couldn't get a whole band at
60 m. It couldn't stop the IARU (and NCI) led REVISION of S25
at WRC-03. It couldn't stop the FCC restructuring ELIMONATION
of 13 and 20 WPM morse code test rates. It couldn't stop the
FCC in cutting the number of new amateur radio license classes
in HALF. CHANGE is happening but the league has become impotent
and represents only the olde-tyme, settled-in-their-ways core
membership. For a quarter of a century the ARRL had done
little but brag about how good they are, yet still hasn't
increased their membership percentage of all licensed U.S. radio
amateurs.

US amateur radio is and has long been wide open for new discoveries,
methods, devices, etc.. Particularly on VHF/UHF, where there's lots of
bandwidth. You cannot blame the license requirements for lack of
innovation, because the requirements for full VHF/UHF privileges have
included no code test and only a minimal written test for 14+ years.

Then WHERE is 's "leading the way" examples in
amateur radio above 30 MHz? WHERE are his state-of-the-art
innovations...beyond his "admired by neighbors" vacuum tube
HF transmitter designed and built in the 1990s?

Remember that is this double-degreed, ivy-covered
"radio engineer" of "much experience" in communications. [?]

The real "cult" or "religion" to watch for is the mindset that all
change is good, new is better than old, ending is better than
mending, and similar marketing buzzphrases.

Poor Believer. All radio amateurs desiring below-30-MHz
privileges "MUST" test for morsemanship...because it is the
FIRST mode in radio and all MUST keep the tradition and other
assorted maxims. Coupled (tightly) with the mighty League as
a "potent representative" of "all hams," all that non-believers
have clear visibility to the CULT FOLLOWING of the MORSE SECT.

Suppose FCC just dumps Element 1 tomorrow. Will we see a techno-
revolution in ham radio? Not likely - it didn't happen after the Tech
lost its code test.

WHERE is demonstrating ANYTHING in this "techno-
revolution?" A vacuum tube HF transceiver "designed" and built
in the 1990s? :-)

Poor Believer. 2 out of 5 U.S. radio amateurs are Technician
Class licensees and they don't worship morsemanship! It must be
a virtual hell for the arrogant and elite morsemen who don't get
the respect and admiration they insist they deserve...tsk, tsk.