From: on Jun 29, 4:30 pm

Michael Coslo wrote:
What is more important:

1. Having a license that allows HF access.

2. Not having to learn Morse code.

IOW, is standing on principle, and refusing to learn Morse code a better
thing than learning it to get the priveliges?

Waiting for the code test to go away to get HF privs kinda reminds me
of my old uncle who until the day he passed away ten or so years ago
was still waiting for his Pennsylvania Railroad stock go back up and
he'd make a wad.

Poor unc...must have listened to his nephew too much. :-)

Tsk, I was ON HF 52 years ago and was still ON HF a year ago
without ever having to know/test for morse code. Legal.
Just not in the MF-HF amateur bands, not even on CB. :-)

"Not in the HF-MF amateur bands" is MOST of the HF-MF spectrum.

Tsk. All you morseodists think that morsemanship is a "love-hate"
condition? Like black versus white? If one doesn't DO it, one
"hates it?" Not so.

You morseodists ought to listen to yourselves sometime. You
prattle on and on and on and on and on about the glory and
majesty of morsemanship and how it is the epitome of all amateur
skills and "all should know this basic thing" as if it were true.
AS IF.

Ain't true, senior. Just rationalizing bull**** or some vestige
of brainwashing soap scum left on your collective psyches by
older olde-fahrts who probably got their "ham" licenses back
when "ham" was a not-nice word from the radio pros. Tsk, tsk.

Would you say that tired old cliche' about "learning morse will
show your dedication and committment to the amateur community?"
I hope not, because that is a tired old cowpatty phrase left
over from before WW2. Who is this "amateur community" that hams
"must" show something to? A bunch of self-glorified, self-promoted
raddio kopps? What's their mailing address? Is it someplace in
Newington?

Now, if morsemanship were SO good in radio, I would have expected
at least one OTHER radio service to retain it as their prime
communications mode. NONE did. How about that?

If morsemanship were SO good for radio, I'd have expected to see
hundreds of thousands of hobbyists flocking to code classes and
beeping up a storm. Maybe picketing someplace in favor of morse?
Hasn't been so. Without Test Element 1 for the below-30-MHz
privilege license...and perhaps some olde-fahrts from long-ago
military radio...there hasn't been any groundswell of Getting
Morsemanship. How about that?

So, because all you PCTA extras try to make out like radio experts
BECAUSE of passing a 20 WPM test, you are wanting Love and Affection
and Respect for being sooooo mighty? Tsk. You are looking for
"love"
in all the wrong places. Poor babies, unloved and you think all who
don't love morsemanship is "hate?" You guys are as whacked out as
the Tennessee Talibanian.

Remember, "Morse code gets through when everything else will." -
Burke