Len Over 21 wrote:
In article , Dave Heil
writes:
Alun Palmer wrote:
(N2EY) wrote in
:
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.
No problem. We all find your attempts at judge, jury, and
executioner to be ineffectual, puerile, and rather stupid.
Who's "We"? Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
"False conclusion?"
Yes, false conclusion.
Hardly.
You've been wrong before. It shouldn't come as a surprise this time.
Had the no-code-test Technician never been created, US ham
radio would have been short by 200K ham licenses by the time of
"Reconstruction."
I referred to the statement concluding that the internet is the reason
we don't have more hams. Ham radio is not about web pages, e-mail and
usenet.
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?
Oh, my, now the judge, jury, and executioner pretends to have
prescience!
See? Now YOU'VE jumped to a false conclusion. I didn't pretend
prescience; I asked a question.
Tsk, tsk, tsk...all you can do is put down others who raise questions
that might threaten your "superior" status in amateur radio.
Tsk, tsk indeed, Foghorn. You have it backwards. Someone made a
statement, I asked the question. Why are you concerned with my status
in amateur radio? You aren't involved.
Try READING what Alun said. He raises a valid point.
Try reading what I said. Alun raised a point. It isn't necessarily
valid. I asked a question. You're all fogged up.
You are still REFUSING to accept anything contrary to your precious
viewpoints.
That won't make them go away.
Granted, my precious viewpoints are not going away. Let me ask you, are
you now accepting anything contrary to YOUR precious viewpoints?
It just arouses enmity among all those who refuse to worship your
radiogod status.
What's it to you? You have nothing to do with amateur radio. Have you
made up your mind yet. Some time back you stated that I wasn't a radio
god then I was a radio god then I wasn't a radio god. Have you made up
your mind yet?
Dave K8MN