RadioBanter - View Single Post - If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?

Dave Heil · August 11th 06, 09:09 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:

The International Morse Code test for United States amateur
radio license classes General and Extra have NEVER GONE AWAY.

Well now. How about that!

Klein fears CHANGE and, perhaps, feelings of obsolescence.

I fear that Leonard H. Anderson will go to his reward without ever
having obtained an amateur radio license.

Someone who has been a regular worker in electronics (radio is a
subset of electronics) ought to damn well know and recognize
that the state of the art in electronics has been CONSTANTLY
changing. It's sometimes a chore to keep up, whether it be
1950 or 2000 or any time in-between.

Don't let us stop you from tending to your chores, Len.

When in doubt of an effective reply, these Fundamentalist
Morseodists
must resort to some form of denigration. Sigh, they never learn...

That's all you've done since your recent reappearance here, Major Hoople.

Some of these Olde Fahrts seem to think their amateurism is on
some kind of "higher plane" than ordinary, plebian, work.

Obtaining an amateur radio license *is* work, Len. Some of the amateur
radio activities we partcipate in are *are* work. The work isn't
compensated. It is performed for the love of it. If you ever hope to
obtain an amateur radio license, you'll have to indulge in some
ordinary, plebian work.

Dave K8MN