"Dick Carroll;" wrote in message
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Dwight Stewart wrote:


Further, to clarify another issue, my comments about excluding people
applied only to the idea of using license requirements solely in an
effort
to exclude - I didn't introduce that premise, those specifically
advocating
the exclusion of others did.

Right you are, Dwight. The FCC did - way back about 1912
(actually their predecessors)

ALL licenses exclude those who don't meet the qualifications, and include
those
who do. Why else would they exist?


You can't purr like a kitten in one thread, Dick, then turn around and lose
control in another. The premise being discouraged here is that the CW test
would be seen by some as a way to keep *unwanted* people out of ham
radio--not just people in general.

I would suspect that there are many nitwits in this newsgroup who support
the idea of CW testing being a good way to keep someone, like me for
example, out of the ARS. Their idea is a waste of time, of course because
a) I am a coded ham, and b) CW testing does nothing to keep creeps out of
the ARS. I won't mention to you how I know that.

Kim W5TIT


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