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

[email protected] · September 15th 06, 01:43 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

From: on Tues, Sep 12 2006 8:29 pm

wrote:
From: Dave Heil on Mon, Sep 11 2006 9:45 pm
Sometimes there's no other recourse but to use a 2x4
to bang on the heads of 1x2s. :-)

I like that one

I may lift it on on occasion

Feel free to do so... :-)

You commented to the FCC. Happy now?

No. The FCC has taken NO VISIBLE ACTION on the NPRM of
last year.

indeeed I had hoped that the FCC might have used Sept 11th to improve
the abilty of the hobby to knit back together so it could be of use for
another bigger 911

"Knit back?" Nah. US amateur radio has been divided by morse
code for decades. It is plain to all but the amateur morsemen who
think they are intrinsically "right" in their beliefs.

Those old, smug, arrogant morsemen do not die nor do they fade
away. They are immortal by their own admission (Robeson) and
(self-described) virtual gods of radio on the 'Olympus' of the
epitome of amateur radio skill, morsemanship.

[ever notice how 'epitome' and 'epitaph' sound alike?... :-) ]

I am not in the least "worried." YOU seem to be worried
since you spend so much time in here trying to denigrate
and defame all no-code-test advocates. YOU have the
"superior" license, why don't you USE that instead of
making all the smug, arrogant stuff against others in here?

becuase it don't mean what it used to mean

Perhaps that is true. Certainly not since that December 1999
announcement of what would happen in the latest restructuring
of amateur regulations...and the standardization of ALL morse
code test rates at 5 WPM. :-)

You've claimed in the past to only be here for civil debate.

NAH...I've desired civil debate...but never got it from
day one in here. :-)

I truly wish I could call you a lier on that one len I reaaly really do

You can and be partially correct...:-) I was referring to the
devout amateur morsemen in my quoted sentence above.

The only place left for "civil debate" is Comments to the FCC.

Some of the Replies to Comments there are actually
priceless gems of fantasy thinking. I rather liked the ones
where "morse code testing is 'necessary' to protect our
nation from terrorists!"

I get the picture of some morseman, in the robes of the Order
of St. Hiram, holding up a code key (in place of a cross) to
some suicide bomber...who then, at the sight of this Divine
Thing, slinks off without ever detonating himself. :-)

Your record shows otherwise.

My "record?!?" :-) I've never "cut" a record, taped
anything, or produced a CD on that subject. :-)

prehaps this a varaint on the rant anyone nocode must a criminal record
oh hat is Robeson line not nromaly Heil's

I fibbed slightly there. Some years back I did some "voice
over" work before getting an AFTRA card. That got on a
tape recording (professional variety, big reels, wide mag
tape) but it wasn't about any amateur radio subject. :-)

Well, I suppose you think God spoke to you. Wheels have
spokes. You fancy yourself a "wheel." "Wheels" think
they can roll all over their opponents...but ONLY on
smooth highways of their own choosing. [imagination of
the extra super-special amateur morsemen is astounding]

well when you have only a hamer everything looks like a nail prehaps
when you are a wheel everything looks like road kill

Hi hi! :-) Good one.

One problem those "wheels" have is that their "tires" keep
getting punctured. Then they find out that it's hard to get
new "tires" of the old, antiquated variety they were used to.
When that happens they are running on the rims, clattering
and banging along the highway at slow speeds, unable to
keep up.

REALITY is the 'spike strip' on the morse highway.

Pop, pop, flap, flap...