On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:22:49 GMT, Slow Code wrote:

"Juan Skinner" wrote in
oups.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



CW is way tough to learn `Slow. . . ANY Idiot who wants to try to
enter the world of HAM will be totally filtered out by that one, huh
SC? It's BUILDING Advanced Systems that's the easy part. That, and
launching new and improved satellites, (Stupid Rocket Science is for
Babies! Right?) That Big ol C.W. requirement will be the solid
bastion against any unwanted foolish sort of person trying to gain
entry to the Wonderful World of HAM, . . . Forever and a day! Ain't
that right, `Good Buddy! . . SC? G'me a big ol' 10/4 there `Slow!

The only thing that CW means is that one knows how to communicate
via radio in the style which is reminisce of old telegraph lines from
the early western era. Nothing more. It's like seeing somebody ride
a hose dressed in a cowboy hat. . . You've GOT to have that damn Hat
in order to ride a horse! Period! In the same way CW is to HAM Radio
nowadays. Pretty stupid, huh?

Hey, I got a good one for you all out there in `Net Land:

Around my place, the HAMs are such a bunch of Butt-Heads that people
wanting to learn how to code, TRAIN BY USING THE CB BANDS!!! You
see, that way they don't get their butt's chewed out by people "Who
Know Better" and are "Professionals in CW", and so they "Quit mucking
up the bandwidth with their stupid banter!"

Around these parts, I have to admit the CB'ers are a whole lot NICER
group of people than the High and Mighty "Generals" and "Extras" ever
thought of being. Just because they can tap out a code on a brass
button with a tin shoe horn! How pathetic can one get! We might as
well bring out some "Musical Spoons" too!

SC, have you looked up the word "Moron" in the dictionary yet? Its
really not what you think you know about it. Honest.