Alun Palmer wrote:
(N2EY) wrote in
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In article , Alun Palmer
writes:
Not atall. Since about 1995 there has been a paradigm shift caused by this
medium we're using right now (the Internet). If code testing had been
abolished significantly before that it would have boosted our numbers far
more than it ever can now. All I'm really saying is that that opportunity
is lost.
I find it hard to take anyone seriously who uses the term "paradigm
shift", especially if he proceeds to jump to a false conclusion or to
several of them.
Sure. there is a lot of CW use by hams on HF, but there are precious
few prospective hams who want to use it.
How do you know they don't want to use it? At the past several Field
Days, the CW ops generated the most interest.
As a sideshow it generates interest. Think of it as being like a
demonstration of some obscure craft in a living museum. Sure, people find
it interesting watching a blacksmith shoe a horse (and that's not a dead
art either), but it doesn't mean they are going to learn to do it.
But you haven't addressed the question posed: How do you know what
prospective hams want to do?
Dave K8MN