A question for nickle Generals and Extras. Would you renew your license?
"JB" wrote in :
Nickle Generals and Extras:
If the 13 and 20 wpm CW exams came back and you had to pass the proper
code exam for your class to renew, 13 wpm for general, 20 wpm for
extra, would you renew your license?
I always liked the idea of the 13/20 wpm requirements because it did
push us to greater heights of achievment.
Some want to be Doctors and some want to be rice pickers. That should
not be taken away from us. In one country I recall, it was mandated
that ALL would be rice pickers at the barrel of an AK47 by sadistic nut
jobs with a grudge against achievers. Of course the result was 2
classes: The bullies and the rice pickers. Perhaps the bullies had
little regard for anything but rice and violence.
Mastering the code and advancing in speed requires determination and
control of ones emotional state to allow the information to flow. This
is very difficult for beligerant people to do, so they complain, bitch
and cajole rather than just doing what needed to be done. As for the
technical requirements. Not enough. Even beligerant people can learn
to field strip a rifle.
Did rice production increase?
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