RadioBanter - View Single Post - Will "no code" license result in meaningful growth?

Dave Heil · February 3rd 07, 07:32 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:
On Feb 2, 8:09?pm, wrote:
On Feb 2, 10:16?pm, Cecil Moore wrote:

wrote:
What does amateur radio not offer now that it once did?
One example: First on the scene with emergency
mobile communications.
In the 1950's, I was the fifth person to arrive
upon the scene of a severe auto accident and the
first one with mobile communications with which
to call for help.
Nowadays, the first four people would have cell
phones. Even if I were the first on the scene,
I would use my cell phone, not my mobile ham rig.
I've been in that situation too, Cecil, and a lot more recently than
the 1950s.

Oh? Was that when you served the country in your
"other ways?"

[This space reserved for "Leo's" comments about Len was unjustly set upon]

Or was that when you shot bears for naval intellgence?
No, that couldn't be you...was another who also served
his country in "other ways."

[This space reserved for the profile of Leonard Anderson actions]

Or maybe you were the military hero "in a country at
war?" No, that was your buddie wearing the little red
hat of a morse monkey, a former REMF who implies
all those things without being specific.

[This space reserved for the Len Anderson assertion that he would never
denigrate a fellow military veteran, despite his frequent denigration of
several military veterans right here in this newsgroup]

I've never been very specific with you about my Vietnam service because
I've seen the kind of things you have done to others. I've done no
boasting about my service in Southeast Asia and have not gotten into
specifics. I've never claimed any heroics nor have I described any
artillery barrages.

You are the individual who made the now famous sphincter post about what
it was like to undergo an artillery barrage, except that you were never
in an artillery barrage. That ties in nicely with your posts over a ten
year period here. You rant about getting into amateur radio but you've
never gotten into amateur radio or even tried to do so.

You couldn't have been a "resident of Hawaii" scarfing
up "club" calls for non-existant "radio clubs." No, that's
another poster entirely, the captain of the "Hornblower"
and the "Effluvia" motorboat (on that "three-hour tour").

Did someone get a callsign that you'd placed dibs on, Len?

And yes, if it were to happen today, my first reaction would be 911 on
the cell phone. Only if that didn't work would I consider ham radio.

But consider this:

How many hams got their license so they could be the first on the
scene with mobile emergency communications, compared with those who
got their license because they thought "radio for its own sake" is
fun?

So, how many DID get their hobby radio license "just for
being an 'emergency communicator?'"

Aren't you the one with their pulse on the numbers and
KNOWING what everyone's "intent and purpose" is?

Do you have your finger on the pulse of amateur radio, Leonard?

Of course you are! C'mon out with the "real reasons."

Gotta love all those code-tested knowitalls. :-)

One who has passed a Morse Code exam or an amateur radio written exam
has done one more thing than you've done. You're still sitting on the
sidelines, telling us which play the coach *should* have sent in.

beep beep,

Be-bop

LA

Dave K8MN