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Laziness is no reason to destroy quality radio.
"Juan Skinner" wrote in
ups.com: The trouble with a code is that it is designed to keep people out. Once you've learned the 'secret' code, it makes you feel that you have something that you, and a select group of others can participate in. Once you're up there, see how quickly you pull the ladder up. Does a proficiency in CW make for a better operator? Yes, in a way. It shows a studious interest in the hobby and is a worth achievement but does it make a more courtious or interesting operator? Certainly not, and this group is witness to that. "People who don't use code are lazy", What? Is that the only discipline available to allow someone to experiment with radio? Absolutely not! How about learning electronics and building your own equipment? Is that a lesser or a greater achievement? How about taking the hobby forward by progressing and leading cutting edge technologies? It was after all the amateur fraternity who brought this new fangled SSB phone mode. Were are at the dawn of a new digital age on all you people can do is look backwards and remain firmly rooted in the seventeenth century. Come on, wake up and smell the 21st century. It's got to be incorporated into the exams then, otherwise hams aren't going to learn and do it. If ham radio is to modernize hams must be forced to modernize. CW isn't preventing the modernization of ham radio, Laziness is. Look at the no-coders on the repeaters. Many of them have been licensed for years and they ain't moderizating. They're no better than they were the day they were first licensed. The passing score on written exams need to be 85% and double the number of questions on each test element. I push for quality hams. If you don't like quality there is CB. Let's not turn the ham bands into CB SC |
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