From: on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:35:58 -0400

Subject: The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio

On 27 Mar 2007 10:44:39 -0700, "AF6AY" wrote:
On Mar 27, 5:28?am, "Alun L. Palmer" wrote:
wrote groups.com:

One of the problems that created the total spam in this newsgroup
is the "newsgroup bloggers" such as Miccolis, vainly trying to find
an outlet for his unrepentant evangelism for morse code mode...and
trying to pretend he is one of the olde-tymers in hamme raddio.

and much of the rest because because persons like Jim aet all were
unable to cover in their spam the truth so they looked the other ways
while the assasins

That's one way of looking at it... not really mine, though...


On February 23rd of 2007 there was a sedate "revolution" in U.S.
amateur radio and the elimination of the code test from all license
class examinations. That obviously HURT many of the egos of
the olde-tymers who now prided themselves (inordinately) on their
mastership of morse and, more importantly, being "better than
average amateurs" for having gained the amateur extra class
license. They loved the status, the rank, the privileges, the
prestige and were not above shoving it on all "lesser" beings in
the hobby. That was morally wrong but one cannot say that to
these mighty macho morsemen without repercussions for at
least a decade's worth of spite on their part.

Len you are worng or at best over simplfing

I disagree. I put them as MORALLY *and* ETHICALLY WRONG.

"They" don't like to be told that, but snit on them. "They"
have been trying to force THEIR way on the rest. "They" lost.
TS.

one can say it is wrong You, me, others have done so and by god we
were listened too by the Govt and the very Nation fo the world
sometimes I am turely in awe of what forces were moved and against
such odds

What "forces?" It was just a matter of explaining the
situation in logical LEGISLATIVE terms that the FCC has
always worked with in radio regulation here. Code testing
didn't really have a chance of survival in this modern day
and the FCC already knew of it. If there were any "forces"
at work, it was the uber-traditionalists still thinking in
1930s terms and trying to get "their" way, because "they"
had to do it that way (so everyone else must).

I will now paraphrase Ben Franklin, We were starting a new Ham radio
against haser odds then kinder god would have allowed"

NOT the proper quote, Mark. Forget the wise-words quoting.

Franklin was many things. His biography is fascinating.
Besides being a dirty old man, he was also a free-thinker
unafraid of change. He grew up with strong ties to the
English crown but switched sides on entering middle age.
He was a REBEL with a cause from middle age onwards.


I didn't really consider getting an amateur radio license until
February 17th of this year.

Len you talked about in that famous (or should it now be refered to as
Notorous) post those 7 years ago......

Oh, bull****. That was a throwaway line...but it was something
that Miccolis HAD to keep forever and ever in order to ease
his personal spite later.

Seven years ago I was also retired from an electronics career
as a design engineer, had obtained a First Class Radiotelephone
(Commercial) Radio Operator License in 1956. I'd already been
ON the air operating radios in various radio services, from the
ground, from the air, and from the sea (not far out to sea, but
certainly on water). Had I then really, really "wanted" a ham
license, I could have gotten one. I just didn't see THEN that
doing all that code practice was personally WORTH IT to me.
Just WHAT would an AMATEUR rank-title-status-privilege DO for
ME? I'd already been a pro for years.

but Len from that moment the only doubts I had to you obtain a ham
license shortly after no code was enacted were based on the fact you
might not have lived long enough

"Lived long enough?!?" Good grief, Mark, what do you think
happens when one lives a long time? One day we suddenly turn
into stereotypical "old folks" confined to wheel chairs with
oxygen and intubation/extubation all over?

WE, (said collectively and all-inclusive) can be dead in a
flash through accidents or stroke or heart attacks - or
other things at ANY age. ANY age. NOBODY is immortal.
Not even pro-coders... :-)


I had had my concerns you might of fallen prey to enough of those
detractors added to the occasionaly mind numbing bordom involved to
not manage it but I was indeed wrong and glad to be proven so

Total bull****. THESE neophyte beginners in computer-modem
communications going to psychologically affect ME? Good grief,
I've had 22 1/2 years of practice at that, been a moderator
on BBS public boards, been a co-sysop on two others. I've seen
about all the types of posturing liars and boasters there are
in-person as well as on-line. The group in here is just second-
rate on that kind of thing. The only thing different about this
group is that they have federally-granted amateur radio licenses.
BFD. That doesn't make any of them superhuman...or even
"better than others."

Amateur radio is just a HOBBY. It is supposed to be for personal
enjoyment. The militant arguers in here, the filth-mongers are
just busy, busy trying to wage an amateur Word War III. They
lack the ammunition to do it effectively, cannot use "tactics"
worth a damn. Mark, they pick on YOU because you fall into their
Word War trap by answering nearly ALL of their trolls. You MUST
break away from that habit. It isn't working FOR you. It is
working for THEM...and it has already annoyed the hell out of
the few of us who care to talk about radio regulation policy
and radio.

73, Len AF6AY