"Dick Carroll;" writes:
wrote:
"Dick Carroll;" writes:
Wrong again, Bill. I define limited interest in ham radio as limited
interest in ham radio.
Where Ham Radio isn't Ham Radio if the CW testing requirement is
dropped. I approve of keeping the requirement, but I dispute your
right to define the ARS in terms like these.
Oh. So you don't believe that limited interest is actually limited
interest. I see.
You aren't that dense, so of course you're making this straw man on
purpose. You define "limited interest in CW" to be "limited interest
in ARS" because you define ARS as inherently including CW. Since
that's the topic under discussion, you are begging the question.
I believe in keeping the CW requirement, and even adding a few more
requirements, precisely to enhance the loyalty of licensees and to
discourage those who wouldn't be active anyway, or would engage in bad
practice. But I don't beg the original question; I've pointed out that
a swimming requirement would do almost as well.
IOW, I believe in weeding out those whose interest in ARS is
sufficiently limited that he refuses to take and pass the swimming
test--but I wouldn't say, "If you aren't interested in swimming a
mile, you aren't interested in ARS."
Likewise with CW.
Regards,
Len.