I really hesitate to even appear to lend any credence to the rant below by
even responding ...

However, at the same time I feel compelled to state that, when I had the
pleasure of operating 4U1ITU from ITU HQ in Geneva (not too long after the
US insituted the "Foundation Class"), I happily worked a LOT of M3's
(perhaps 50% of about 300 contacts worked in about 2 hours on 20m) and found
them to be quite well up on how to POLITELY work a DX station in a pile-up
(4U1ITU invariably generates a pileup when someone activates it).

I find the "give the youngsters the cold shoulder" suggestion below to be
itself infantile and it's clearly not in the best interests of the future of
ham radio.
We *must* bring in the kids who will be the future generation of hams -
otherwise when we go SK there will BE no ham radio because there won't be
enough hams to justify our frequency allocations.

73,
Carl - wk3c

"Pierian Spring" wrote in message
oups.com...
It seems that anyone of those who are involved
in any way with childrens' organisations or with
the inducing of children to tackle the kindergarten
entrance examination (that is represented by
the 6-year-olds' qualification of the M3/CB Fools'
Licence) exhibit behavioural traits - infantile
outbursts, deliberately insulting tirades and
vicious temper tantrums - that one would expect only
from the children in their care.

Is it time for all _REAL_ Radio Hams to refuse
to have anything to do with such mental derangees
and their charges, and institute an age bar, perhaps
16-years-old, below which we will not associate in any
way?

Only then, by making it clear that young children are
not, and cannot be in any way, part of the society
of adult technocrats that is Radio Hammery will be be
able to influence them not to attempt to join us until
they have achieved maturity?

Word will soon get around if children who have been
conned by the various Billies-No_Mates into going
for the M3/CB fools' Licence find that no-one will
speak to them.