RadioBanter - View Single Post - Is the code requirement really keeping good people out of ham radio?

Dave Heil · October 7th 06, 06:09 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:
From: Opus- on Wed, Oct 4 2006 6:58 pm

(on WWII vets)

What is most interesting (to me) is finding out later
that some of them were exaggerating what they said
and a few were downright liars! :-)

Did any of them tell the the equivalent of your "sphincter post", where
they described going through something they never actually went through?

(on old timers)

The loud ones stand out because they MUST stand out
and make everyone pay attention to them. Their EGO
demands it. They want to RULE, to control, to judge,
to be in-charge.

There's a certain just, poetic quality to your words, Len. They could
easily have been penned about yourself.

(on the ARRL and the *use* of morse)

Part of that fixation on radiotelegraphy in the USA is
a result of the tremendous amount of ham-oriented
publications of the ARRL. The ARRL emphasizes radio-
telegraphy as the ne-plus-ultra of amateur radio skills.
Since the ARRL has a virtual monopoly on amateur radio
publications here, has had that for at least seven
decades, they can and have managed to condition the
thinking of American amateur radio licensees in favor
of radiotelegraphy.

Those who've been conditioned will not understand that
they've been imprinted but insist it like some
'natural order of things.' Further, they tend to out-
rage and the very idea that they've been brainwashed!
Such outrage takes on a religious fervor at times.

Your claims of only wanting to eliminate "the test" ring hollow, Leonard.

(Leonard Anderson on ATTACKS)

It is an emotional ATTACK ploy. It is common in nearly
all newsgroups. Those that do these sort of things can
get away with it, unworried about any direct physical
confrontation that might ensue.

Please see the N2EY which outlines your own behavior toward any who
disagrees with you.