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June 15th 05, 01:41 AM

From: on Tues 14 Jun 2005 14:39

wrote:
From: "Dee Flint" on Sun 12 Jun 2005 18:10

"bb" wrote in message
roups.com...

Has the code exam been dropped yet? Might as well be all black or all
white because at the end of the day there are still people who support
the wall.

All purposeful action starts with an idea - a dream, as it were.
First the idea, then the actions to make the idea become
a reality.

Sort of like showing one's REAL patriotism by volunteering for
milirary service?

The FCC is NOT a regulator of "dreams." All it does is mitigate
interference in the civil side of the EM spectrum by U.S.
citizens.

The FCC is NOT any "moral arbiter" of anything but its own
regulations and rulings in regards to U.S. law.

The person who will not allow him/herself to believe they can do
something is already defeated.

tries to sound like a Reverend on morse code,
preaching from some ivy-covered pulpit. [pulpit fiction
but without a Travolta] Is this a prelude to (roll drums)

...A Sermon On The Antenna Mount?

Can become an artist-illustrator, traveling from
place to place, painting portraits? Sam Morse did that. Sam
and his financial backer Al Vail invented morse code. ART
with minor success at it in any media REQUIRES a built-in
aptitutde for that (or an excellent PR/gallery person to sell
"great art").

I started out WORKING as an artist-illustrator because I did
have the built-in talent/aptitude for that. Not only that, my
completed works were BETTER in any media than Sam Morse's.

That reply has very little to do with "moral imperatives" or
the FCC or with other than totally refute the
specious (and irrelevant) supposition that a government agency
is a moral/motivational arbiter of what some do as a HOBBY.

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The current Morse Code test in the USA requires the correct
recognition of 25 consecutive Morse Code symbols, or correct
answers to 7 out of 10 fill-in-the-blank questions based on
5 minutes of Morse Code text. The entire text used for the
test consists of no more than 125 Morse Code symbols
transmitted in no less than 5 minutes.

Duhhhhh...

This test has been compared to learning to recognize 41 words
of a foreign language, which is a fair analogy.

Ridiculous, specious "comparison."

Morse code is simply the arhythmic monotonic tone patterns to
represent the letters, numbers, and some punctuation in the
ENGLISH LANGUAGE. It was never intended to be anything else.

I already KNOW, have used, all without ANY license or "test,"
MORE than 41 words in each of three foreign languages. Your
"comparison" is preposterous.

It seems incredible that such a simple test of such a basic
radio communication skill would be the cause of so much
controversy and acrimony from those opposed to it.

Oh, my, incredulosity puzzles , possibly because of
his incredible stubborn attitude of maintaining the OLD STANDARDS
forever and ever...and his unmitigated gall and arrogance by
insisting that some long-ago morse test passing SHALL be passed
by newcomers. Forever.

The FCC uses "licensing" as a means of EM spectrum mitigation,
NOT to "control the moral/ethical behavior of hobbyist hams."

The FCC is NOT an academic institution whose "tests" are any
sort of equivalent to academic skill/knowledge "qualification."

That Test Element 1 remains IN the amateur radio regulations is
due primarily to the incredible acrimony of those olde-tyme
hammes who cannot bear to lose the one link to their personal
"fame" that set them "up above their fellows" (as hobbyists).

Now, , study hard, devote yourself to the Morse art
of painting, but you won't be in anything but small-bore in
the caliber of Morse art. APTITUDE lack cannot be overcome by
DREAMS.