On Feb 28, 7:15�pm, John Smith I wrote:
wrote:

* ...

* *That's a subjective opinion, JS, and I won't fault Carl S. on
* *what he has done and stated in various places. *I disagreed
* *with what NCI did NOT do immediately on FCC 06-178 when
* *it first broke news last December...but then NCI is really
* *an international movement, not strictly one for the USA.

Subjective? *Well ya, all you see in my posts are one mans humble
opinoions. *But then, the president pulls his pants on one leg at a time
(well, I believe he does!) and no mans opinion counts more than
mine--not even his!

All of that depends on the mindset of the "men" you are
in the company of...(he said, jangling English syntax)

NCI has REAL relevance, in my humble opinion ... your mileage may vary.

I agree but conditionally. I think it has POTENTIAL relevance.

The IARU started the code revolution in prompting for the
re-write of most of S25 at WRC-03...the WRC that made
it possible for individual adminstrations to toss the code
test at THEIR option.


* *While the USA is a LATE-comer on tossing the morse code
* *exam internationally, there still exist other countries who have
* *kept it, one way or another.

Hmmm. Yep, we may be dumb, but we can always point out someone dumber!
sticks-out-tongue

Oh, no...groan not slob-humor old movies again...!


* *In my opinion, NCI could either dissolve or change away from
* *being USA-oriented with a different direction. *NCI's basic
* *goals have largely been realized and, in that, was a success
* *to my mind.

Yep, time for NCI to step into phase two, hope Carl is "psychic" enough
to realize that!



* *As long as there is money to be made from publishing to a
* *niche hobby activity, the ARRL will be firmly entrenched.
* *Human attrition will eventually cause their metamorphosis.

* *73, LA

Time for the "common ham" to fire up. * Setup some web pages with
training, "elmering", etc. *Heck, where is the group
rec.radio.amateur.new-licensees ??? *Instead, we have self-protecionist
hams creating groups like "rec.radio.amateur.good-ole-boys-club"

THIS newsgroup was a "good-ol-boys-club" when I first
found it on DejaVu. There was no end of morsemen in
here putting down ANYONE who didn't love, honor, cherish
and obey morse code.


Krist, Dee has better ideas than most, that alone should shame us into
better behavior and efforts ... are we men or are we mice?

Wayyyyy too many anony-mousies in here. :-)

73, LA