"Dick Carroll;" wrote in message ...

That's about the extent of the mental capacity of the no-coder, Mike.
They have too little vision to
be able to see value in radiotelegraphy, so all they can see is that
anyone who has that capacity must be on the far opposite end of the scale.

One must ponder their IQ. For the most part it's down with the whale
offal.

Dick, have you not heard one word we've said to you over the past
decade?

If you want to use code, FINE!

If you want to build code into your personal Emergency Operations
Plan, FINE!

If you want to create an organization, call it FISTS, and dedicate it
to the use of Morse Code, FINE!

If you want to participate (or not) in CW Contests, FINE!

If you want to risk your life trying to cobble together a CW
transmitter during an emergency, FINE!

But the days of requiring otherwise qualified people to have to learn
your favorite mode just to participate in HF are over. Get used to
it. Adjust. Adapt. Overcome.

Your approach to getting other people to learn your favorite mode has
to change, because you can't say, "Just learn it because I had to."

That just doesn't wash anymore. People don't accept "Just because,"
anymore.

You've got work to do, and it isn't getting done by being crappy to
people who don't share your views. You think vinegar is going to
attract new Morse enthusiasts? It isn't. You think wasting your time
arguing with people like me is going to convert us? It isn't. I
think code is just one of many modes authorized by the FCC. I haven't
used SSTV, so why aren't you complaining about that?

Get on with it, and quit complaining to me about it.

73, Brian