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September 16th 03, 06:09 AM

In article , (N2EY)
writes:

In article , "Clint"
rattlehead@computronDOTnet writes:

sending and receiving CW isn't a building block
to anything else.....

Yes, it is.

First, it's a building block to the use of the mode on the air. Although other
services have pretty much stopped using Morse Code, hams use it extensivley,
and an amateur license is permission to operate an amateur station, not a
station in another service.

Roger that, Reverend Jim...IN the Archaic Radiotelegraphy Service...

Note that the Morse Code tests are at a very
basic level. They're entry-level, nothing more.

Well, "there ya go."

Second, if someone wants to actually design and build radio equipment, having
skill in Morse Code permits them to use almost anything from very simple to
very sophisticated equipment to good advantage. Would you expect a newcomer
to radio to build an SSB transceiver as a first project?

I built a simple battery powered voice transmitter back in 1948. Single
tube,
very low power, worked fine for a whole block. Was 14 then. :-)

now, the electrical principals of what a CW
transmission is, and a knowledge test of that is a good idea, but
that's comparing apples and oranges.

Comparing apples and oranges is fine for the produce market, Rev. Jim.

Why should there be *any* written test on theory if all a person wants to do
is
operate manufactured radios? If someone doesn't want to build a rig, why
should
they have to memorize all those symbols, diagrams and formulas?

Well then, you WANT type-accepted radios in amateur radio?!?

Why would you WANT such a thing?

I think most of the PCTA
is being disingenuous when they come up with "good reasons"
to keep CW testing alive;

Why?

You've been GIVEN all the "whys" you can possibly handle.

Maybe you are suffering from "information overload" and can't accept
all those valid reasons?

I think the true deeper reason lies
somewhere in the "I had to do it so everybody should" relm,
as i've stated before.

You can think what you want, but you're mistaken on that account.

Nope. NO ONE is "mistaken" on that account.

You WANT an exclusive Archaic Radiotelegraphy Service.

You ought to petition for an RM with the FCC. Start a movement to make
the ARS all-code, no voice, no data, nothing else but on-off-keying morse.

That would make you happy, right, Reverend Jim?

LHA