Radiosrfun wrote:
SNIP

It isn't so much the "code" being removed which has dumbed it down, it used
to be you "had" to know electronics to get a license. Blame it on the Study
Guides which really don't teach ****.

SNIP

This same, ultimately divisive and boring, argument has been going
on for long enough! I know many things that kids today will never
know and they know things that I am not likely to learn.'Twas ever
so! I have a head full of valve circuits and valve design abilities
that are redundant - should I waste my life complaining?

Morse code is just another efficient means of communication and
let's hear it for those turned on by it - credit to them Morse
code is not a means of dividing up the world into us and not us.

Amateur radio is faced with a number of real threats as western
governments deregulate the HF bands or, more likely, abandon them.
We can't afford to loose people - we need to join together to
preserve a very worthwhile pastime!


Charlie.


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