In article , "Carl R. Stevenson"
writes:

"N2EY" wrote in message
...
In article , Mike Coslo

writes:

I would propose that "200 Meters and Down" be required reading and have
a few questions on the tests!

While "200" is very good, it stops in 1936. I would recommend the
following:

- "Calling CQ" by Clinton B. Desoto, W1CBD, available for free download as
a PDF file. May be around as a printed book. Stories of 1920s and 1930s
amateur radio.

- "The Wayback Machine" by Bill Continelli, W2XOY, available for free
download
or for viewing on a website. Multichapter history of amateur radio from
the earliest days to the present.

As entertaining depicitions of the history of ham radio, these may be GREAT
works.

Have you read any of them?

As "models for the future," I think we need to look more forward than
backward.

Sure. But we need to know the background to knwo how we got where we are, and
how to avoid mistakes made in the past.

While I admit that history can be valuable in terms of learning
from past mistakes, so as to avoid similar mistakes in the future, I think
leaning on past events/conditions/etc. too heavily and trying to "keep
things
as they were in 'the good old days' " is a BIG mistake ... a mistake that
too many of us are inclined to make.

I disagree. It's not a mistake to keep certain values. Like old-fashioned
manners, courtesy and respect on the air. But there's no good test for that!

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And while we're on the subject of the future - what's YOUR vision for the
future? Besides getting rid of the code test?

73 de Jim, N2EY