February 13th 07, 06:20 PM
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ARRL Now Only Wants No Code Hams - Holding Midnight Exams
On 12 Feb 2007 21:28:11 -0800, "
wrote:
+++On Feb 12, 4:35?pm, "Stefan Wolfe" wrote:
+++ "policy-ham" wrote in message
+++
+++ oups.com...
+++
+++ Found on qrz.com. he ARRL now only wants only no code hams. And as
+++ for the rest of us?
+++
+++ Not true what you say about the ARRL. Amateur radio is only as good as the
+++ effort you put into it. If you can't do code, you cannot communicate with a
+++ huge subset of the amateur population. That is a fact. You never will be
+++ able to so until your learn code, FCC requirement or no FCC requirement.
+++ There is some DX you will never get, some countries you may never contact,
+++ many people you will never meet.
+++
+++ Some no-coders sound like the gay rights lobby: They seem to be trying to
+++ make no-code the "norm". "I want you to think I am normal". "I am as just
+++ good as you, I can do HF now, I can be a real 'Ham'". (Gays can get
+++ "married"). True by regulation, but not really in practice.
+++
+++ In the foreseeable future you will never truly be a ham until you can QSO in
+++ code; you will only hold a piece of paper authorizing you to communicate on
+++ HF. Don't shoot the messanger. Don't bother disagreeing with me; it is the
+++ large subset of the amateur base that you have to convince and,
+++ unfortunately, that will take a while to change IF it ever does change. When
+++ people are sick of SSB QRM or we cannot QSO by voice due to conditions, we
+++ can simply move to the CW sub-bands and you are left "holding the mike".
+++
+++ As Walter Cronkite used to say. "That's the way it is..." February 23, 2007.
+++
+++ Hello? This is February 12, 2007. FACTUAL ERROR!!!
+++
+++ There's one little problem, "Stefan." Isn't ANY "Stefan Wolfe"
+++ in the FCC CORES database. The best that can be found
+++ are two Steven Wolfes:
+++
+++ Steven H. Wolfe, KC4UZW, Tech, FRN 0004408340
+++ Steven B. Wolfe, KC9KTN, Tech, FRN 0016067183
+++
+++ www.qrz.com confirms that.
+++
+++ The only "CW sub-bands" that Techs have is a small
+++ sliver on the bottom of two VHF ham bands. Of course,
+++ all other classes can use those. shrug So?
+++
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Only giving back which was taken away. In a land far far away and
along time ago Techs had some CW priviledge on 2 and 6 meter CW if my
senile memory has not forgotten me.
james
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