Perhaps you're right, Mike - the Morse-based callsign thing was
certainly a little-known fact. There must have been budget cuts at
the FCC, though, and the project was cancelled the project there were
no funds to buy the magic decoder rings that were required

I expect that he'll be back here later to add his .02 again - you
gotta admit, this guy is a master debater!

73, Leo

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:28:45 -0400, Mike Coslo wrote:

Leo wrote:
How so? I have never stated my position one way or the other with
respect to mandatory Morse testing. I have stated that I did get my 5
WPM to get on to HF because I had to by law, and that using it for
QSOs is beginning to grow on me. That doesn't mean that I think
everyone should have to do it!

So, does that make me pro or con, for mandatory testing? Where's the
obvious? Hmmm - there's that old reading comprehension problem
again....

I think that you just like to stir things up, Sir - your diatribes
appear to serve no other useful purpose. Of course you are aware that
the future of Morse testing will be decided at the government level,
by committees of civilized people - and not within this group. As
such, your energies and passionate rants are for nought, as they will
not sway the decision makers one bit. Like complaining with the guys
on the loading dock about the boss - won't change anything, but I bet
that would make someone one feel more important and in control, huh?
(know the feeling?)


Leo, you are being much too hard on the lad. For the price of irritating
some of us, he has given us an education about things that the most
cerebral of us didn't know... Like the special calls that were assigned
to the hams that didn't take any Morse CW test. Perhaps they were forced
to use those 1/4 wave Dipoles. Maybe that's why we didn't know about
them? 8^)

- Mike KB3EIA -