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September 19th 05, 05:40 AM

wrote:

Considering that I've been involved with communications (of many
kinds, not just radio) for a half-century plus, and starting out
with full exposure to HF radio communications at a professional
level, the METHODS of communications are more important to me than
the ABILITY for personal communications.

That's fine for you. I'm sure that you'll understand that radio
amateurs don't feel bound by what is important to you.

Telegraphy itself is 161 years old. It had become mature at
52 years when the first radio communication was demonstrated.
It is primitive, simplistic in method, very slow compared to
normal human speech, prone to human error at either end of a
radio circuit, and requires radiotelegraphy specialists at
both ends in order to communicate written words. Its efficacy
is largely fantasy, an artificiality promoted by much-earlier
radiotelegraphers using their own abilities as role models for
all others to follow. Radiotelegraphy's last stand in radio is
AMATEUR radio license testing; all other radio services have
given up on using radiotelegraphy for communications.

The fantasy seems to be yours alone. You like to use terms like
"fantasy" and "artificiality" and "last stand" when you write of morse
code. The fact is, morse is very much alive within amateur radio. It
bothers you. I can live with your being bothered.

...[the
largest use of radiotelegraphy is the long pulse code of the
keyless auto entry "fob" transmitter, but that is for control,
not communications and does not use the Morse-Vail coding]
Modernization should be the order of the day, not the odor of
antiquity.

Fine, let Detroit modernize those keyless fob transmitters. Start a
campaign.

Do "I" want a ham license? Yes and no. :-) I've had a
commercial license since '56, tested for it at a real FCC field
office (not a COLEM), had experience in operating HF, VHF, UHF,
microwave radios prior to that, more afterwards including LF,
VLF and microwaves on up to 4mm wavelengths. I've retired from
a career in radio-electronics design engineering (but only for
regular hours). I've been a hobbyist in radio-electronics
since 1947, something on-going.

Your past professional work does not, in and of itself, qualify you for
an amateur radio license. Your paragraph of professional achievements
is irrelevant to obtaining an amateur ticket.

I don't really NEED an amateur
license to fulfill my Life's Ambition.

There you go.

But other licensees
DEMAND that I get one in order to comment on regulations
(contrary to what the U.S. Constitution says).

Was that a deliberate distortion on your part or have you just become
forgetful?

Maybe I "should"
get one? :-) "Tribal rules," ey what? :-)

It looks as if you've been busy making up your mind on whether to do so
for nearly the past six years. I'm betting on inertia. Have a nice
lunch and catch a nap, OT.

Dave K8MN