"Dick Carroll;" wrote in message ...
Brian wrote:
(N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article , "Chic N Pox"
writes:
So Dick, please remember that keeping Code WILL NOT
keep the fruitcakes out of the hobby, nor will it bring more stations
into the same.
It won't keep 'em all out, that's for sure.
So its much more important to keep out some or a lot of ordinary law
abiding citizens who otherwise could be enjoying the ARS?
You never did get it, did you?
YOU never did get it. No one has any intent to keep anyone out who wants to
follow the rules and refrain from becoming a problem.
But keeping out people was the net effect of your code exam.
You never could see that
a code test never kept otu anyone who wanted in,. just a few who were too mildly interested to
bother. Like you.
I got in with a code exam.
I said it before the last restructuring and I guess its necessary that
I say it again, "What I fear most about restructuring the ARS is a
lack of enforcement, and what I fear most about maintaining the Status
Quo is a lack of enforcement. The Morse Exam is no substitute for
enforcement."
That's all you know about it.
It is true.
For years the code test was the ONLY factor that restricted
troublemakers from freely roaming the ham bands, FCC having been relegated by lack of funding
to more or less toothless-watchdog status.
Of course that doesn't nean a thing to you, but what that shows id your lack of
perception.
It shows that someone wasn't doing their job.
So when a few thousand refugees from way up there descend onto the HF bands
-as some have very recently indicated their intent right here on rrap- and lonely Riley is left
to sweep up,. just how much enforcement you think there'll be?
But press on- it's "kill the code" even if it kills us.
Dick, coded people can be idiots, too. Have you heard Kelly challenge
other to "Meet me on HF, any band, any mode, any time..."
Was that so he could sweet talk them?