From: an old friend on Sat, Sep 2 2006 7:58 pm


JDB wrote:
So who are you remaining five guys going to talk to?

not qutie that bad but Slow code does like llots of BW

Correction, Mark, Blow Code likes lots of BS. :-)

He also wants lots of attention and might want to be the
successor to that military impostor Robeson.


BTW, I didn't know we lost ham radio and need to take it back.

his idealogy lostcotrol of Ham Radio completely about 20 years ago with
the introduction of the No Code license

Actually 16 years ago (1990) but the movement to end the
morse code testing for AMATEURS had begun much earlier than
that.

Prior to the opening of the Internet to the public in 1991
the ARRL could retain attornies in DC to promote Hiram
Percy's ideals of morsemanship. [paid for by ARRL
members] However, no-code-test advocates did manage to
get their Petition into the NPRM stage in 1990. That
passed into LAW in 1991 and the rabid morsemen have
been frothing at the mouth over it ever since.

Interestingly enough, the ARRL had to retain a lobbyist
organization after the Internet went public...in addition
to the law firm on retainer. [also paid for by ARRL
members] The competition for the FCC's ear had grown
now that amateurs could "talk" to the FCC directly instead
of being filtered through the ARRL. Rightly so since the
ARRL membership has never been more than a quarter of all
licensed US radio amateurs. Democratic principles in
action for this republic, not the monopolistic pseudo-
"representation" of a minority group organization.

he is going to whine for another 50 year or till he drops dead

Has Blow Code ever identified himself by callsign?

Blow Code is more likely just one of the 'others' under
a new pseudonym. Either that or the pro-code-testers are
just all parroting the ARRL dicta (or is that "papal
encyclical'?) from the Church of St. Hiram in Newington.

Blow Code, think before you type will you? You spend entirely too much
time on the computers. Get on the radio and talk to all the old timers
on CW will you? They are lonely and need you there.

thinking? I realy don't thik he can do that he seems to be one of those
fellows for whom Narrow Band OOKed RF causes brain problems

My take on that is the monotonic beeping did it. :-)

Rabid morsemen reject all communications outside of their
very tight little RF spectra and sing praises of their
very narrowband mental viewpoints. Maybe that's what
they think is "intellectualism." :-)

Or, it may be some undiscovered malady in their brain
which also keeps them from advancing beyond their mental
youth. They can't think "outside their box" but then few
morsemen can think inside the box containing their radio
circuitry. It seems that anything other than their
twitching fingers carressing their code keys is some
mysterious, alien "force" in those radio boxes, a deep
mystery to them. The signs pointing to that are their
inability to talk technical other than parroting (again)
the ARRL information spoon-fed them. That lack of self-
confidence or insecurity may lead to their defensive
"we are better than you!" shouting about their beloved
psycho-motor skill of morsemanship.

Gotta love their LACK of technical details, all the time
praising to the skies of their narrowband signals yet an
almost utter lack of understanding Shannon's Law, the
universal relationship of message rate, random noise,
information error, and bandwidth. Maybe they can't
THINK faster than 20 to 40 words per minute? :-)

US amateur radio appears to be quite alive and well today.
That despite the ARRL's insistence that all amateurs
should emulate the standards and practices of the 1930s.
Instead of trying to take a neutral, hands-off policy on
code testing, the ARRL ought to look at itself and the
reason they can't get membership from the three-quarters
of all amateur licensees in the USA. That majority IS
the future of US amateur radio, not the frozen-in-their-
youth delusions of some olde-tyme morsemen.