From: on Sun, Nov 6 2005 8:46 am


wrote:
From: on Fri 4 Nov 2005 17:16
Dee Flint wrote:

I would disagree with this approach. Here's why.

Let me start by saying that I believe all amateurs should have a basic
ability in Morse code as it is one of the basics of amateur radio.

Why is it that you only want volunteers to take up the burden of
learning morse code on "thier" free time and equip morse code radio
stations at their own expense?

...just because...

There's got to be some deeper motive.

There is. They are "superior" to ordinary mortals through
morsemanship.


Why wouldn't you want paid, professional radio operators and radio
users to know Morse Code? Especially paid emergency communicators and
emergency responders.

If the government needed or wanted morse code radio operators, they
should create a GS5-7-9-11 series and get them.

Dee must imagine that ONLY hams are First Responders to
any emergency/crisis/disaster.

If so then Dee needs to back off and let first responders respond
first.

Dee is ANGRY that I challenged her on emergency comms via the
"First Responder" comment. [horrors...!]

Ya notice that *NO* PCTA has ever come back on that challenge
about the REAL emergency/crisis/disaster comms people and
what THEY choose? :-)


But the PCTA are more than willing to donate other people's free time
and money in order to provide the government with something it doesn't
want and doesn't want to pay for, just so you'll have someone to QSL
with on the low end of the bands.

PCTA think they are spay-shul (as the church lady said) and
NEED that code test to "prove" they are "better."

They are special. But when all become special, none are.

Logically true. :-)

RCA sub-division Commercial Aviation Electronics had a sales
phrase "Primus inter Pares" (First Among Equals) in '74. :-)

Weird sort of paradox in Latin, no less! RCA overgovernment
told them to stop its use after some months. Too many
potential customers knew Latin and remarked on it...without
buying enough equipment. :-)

Neat, almost self-defining paradox thing: First Among Equals!


They are Mighty Macho Motivated Morsemen. Hear them roar...



They were born 100 years too late.

Well, maybe 50 years. :-)

In 1935 code was king. 70 years later the throne is white
and located in the bathroom?

[watch this space for OUTRAGE by the PCTA...:-)]