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Dave Heil · August 12th 06, 04:08 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

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From: Dave Heil on Fri, Aug 11 2006 1:09 pm
Email: Dave Heil
Groups: rec.radio.amateur.policy

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.

Oh, no, Kernal Klink is trying to manufacture a "motive" of
his own imagining. Tsk, tsk. He gets it WRONG.

What's not wrong is that you aren't involved in amateur radio at all.

Klink, can't you get ANYTHING right?

I've already gotten it right. You aren't a participant in amateur radio
and you'll likely never be a participant in amateur radio. It really is
that simple.

My purpose in here is trying to get the morse code test(s)
reduced to zero. It is down to just 1 now.

Bully for you.

Tell us all (from your imagination) why one "should" get
an amateur radio license.

"One" should never if he has no interest in doing so.

I am a professional in
electronics, have had my Commercial license since 1956,
am retired from a career in aerospace electronics with
a nice income.

Bully for you. What has that to do with amateur radio?

I don't NEED a ham license...

No one needs an amateur radio license for his existence. No one should
obtain one if he doesn't want such a license. In you, we have someone
who neither needs nor wants an amateur radio license and who spends his
time in an amateur radio newsgroup, advocating changes in an endeavor in
which he is not a participant and has no intention of becoming a
participant.

nor am I trying to get one.

No kidding. You've not been trying to get one for well over a decade now.

I'm trying to change the federal law concerning all
ham-hobbyists being required to test for morse in this
advanced time of the new millennium.

Why?

Not to worry, Klink, I'll be watching the US Post Office
walls for YOUR "reward." :-)

You do that. I'm sure that you have lots of time to stand around in
post offices.

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.

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

You couldn't possible do that. :-)

I couldn't "possible"?

I don't suppose I could possibly be responsible for keeping you from
your chores. After all, you're already hangin' out and doin' nuttin'.

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.

Oh, poor baby! Colonel Klink is bent out of shape because
no one loves and adores him and his morsemanship? Tsk, tsk.

No one? How do you know, Leonard? Poor baby, tsk, tsk and a Hey-Nani-Nani.

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.

How much DOES it pay?

It doesn't pay anything, as you know. "Work" is not defined by payment.

Some of the amateur radio activities we partcipate in are *are* work.

Minimum wage?

Much, much less.

The work isn't compensated.

Awwwwwww! Imagine that, a NON-professional amateur! :-)

Redundancy is your specialty.

You keep right on looking down your Imperial nose at all us
who aren't federally licensed as super-dooper morsemen.

Morsemen? Hell, you aren't a radio amateur of any kind.

It
makes you feel all warm and toasty, does it?

None of my neighbors are licensed amateur radio ops, Len. That they
have no amateur radio license bothers me not in the least. Why is
"Imperial" capitalized?

I'll bet you
run around and make like a Prussian feldoffizier to all
other hams not wanting morse. "For the "love of it?" :-)

You aren't another ham, Len.

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.

No, I won't, Kernal Klunk.

Yes, you would.

I didn't parlay a disk jockey job into fleecing the State
Department in being resident ham DX.

That makes two of us.

Cushy.

Which part?

Now you are
getting a pension for all that "hard work."

How about that!

Taxpayers are
paying you.

What of it?

Hardly "plebian" of YOU, is it?

It is as plebian as anyone else who receives a pension for his work.

But, having NO answers to my remarks, you made up a lot of
scurrilous snit on your own. "For the love of it?"

I didn't make up any of it, Len.

Must have been...it sure as hell had NO ring of "diplomacy" to
it.

I looked at your newsgroup re-entry and patterned myself after your warm
and avuncular style.

Didn't learn much about diplomacy at State, Klank?

I learned quite a bit. Sometimes there's a carrot and stick. Sometimes
there's just a carrot. Sometimes there's just a stick.

Next time, Coolonell, try TRY to answer some of the topics
that were addressed...even if NOT to you.

What topics were addressed to you by Al Klein when you decided to make
your views known? What topics were addressed to you by K4YZ when you
decided to make your views known?

Do it "for the
love of it."

I delight at getting under your thin skin--for the love of it.

Fork you, you're done...

I'm not nearly done, kindly old, uninvolved old timer.

Dave K8MN