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

Dave Heil · September 4th 06, 04:58 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:
rom: an old friend on Fri, Sep 1 2006 7:30 pm

The FCC establishes regulations for ALL United States civil radio.
What the FCC says, goes.

Great. Follow your own advice. The FCC says that the 5 wpm morse test
for HF access is the law of the land.

Bigot morsemen do NOT allow any opinions opposing their own
over-inflated self-defined opinions. They want to RULE all the
Homies in da Ham Hood.

What are you smoking, Pops?

As a professional in radio communications, one who began in
and on HF over a half century ago, I have contempt for the
over-inflated egos of the bigot morsemen.

How much ego is considered "over-inflated", Len? We're not dealing with
professional radio communications here, so you may can the speech. I
know quite a number of amateur radio ops who have contempt for you.
Let's call it even.

None have made
their case valid enough to warrant morse code testing for
amateur radio licenses forever.

Forever? I don't know of anyone who says that morse testing must remain
forever. Did you mean to write that no one has made a case which suits
your personal standards of validity? No one ever could. Your mind was
made up when you began. You weren't here to debate; you were here to
lecture.

But, the ARRL is toadying
to them, vainly hoping to increase their minority membership
by sticking to the amateur practice of a half century ago.
ARRL membership hasn't increased beyond a quarter of all
licensed radio amateurs in the United States, nor has the
ARRL favored, ever, the VHF-and-up amateur radio licensees
beyond the barest minimum of mentions.

Your wild claims are simply malarkey. Would you do us the courtesy of
naming any other U.S. amateur radio organization which has even 5% of
licensed radio amateurs as members?

Sooner or later the FCC will yield to PUBLIC pressure to
modernize US amateur radio beyond the old-fashioned
limitations and favoritism towards morsemanship lobbied
for by the ARRL.

PUBLIC pressure? How many of the general public have commented, let
alone pressured? Do you think your own endearing style has swayed the
Commission?

It may not come in "Slow Code's" lifetime
since he is of the group where a morse key has to be pried
from his cold, dead fingers. Poor "Slow Code," old before
his time, unable to fit into this new millennium of radio
technology.

Nontheless, he's a radio amateur, something you'll likely not achieve
before you end up with empty, cold, dead fingers. Thusfar in this new
millenium, you have an old, dusty, tiny Johnson to work with.

Dave K8MN