On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:02:15 UTC, Don Bowey
wrote:

On 9/26/06 2:50 PM, in article g40vCXBzNU8x-pn2-xidDCXv10dGz@localhost,
"Count Floyd" CountFloyd@MonsterChillerHorrorTheater wrote:

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:41:53 UTC, "gkb" wrote:

10 wpm novice, 20 wpm general and 35 wpm for extra class.
Yes, that's the ticket, back to the past. As if enough people weren't
abandoning ham radio already. I have never thought that code was
essential. It is just another "hoop" that someone has to jump
through. Once I passed the code test, I never used it again. Get
real, this is 2006, and with all the innovations on the radio
spectrum, code is the last thing on people's minds.


If there is ever a serious emergency, including no commercial
communications, guys like you who can't build a simple transmitter and
companion receiver, and can't do code, will be the first to scream for help.

Where did you get the part that I cannot build a radio? I simply said
that I do not use code anymore! I have built many radios, repaired
them and use them to this day! This attitude is typical of
old-timers, and I am 54 myself! How may radios have you built pal?

What makes you think people are abandoning ham radio? I don't see
that at
all, but I do see a reduction in new hams. But...... What goes around will
come around. Ham radio will grow again if the ARRL will quit mucking it up
with their friggin yuppy, elitist attitude.

I agree with you on the ARRL! They are the ones who constantly keep
pushing for "code" requirements to be raised! Check the figures on
hams around the country. At a recent South Florida hamfest, it seemed
that I was the youngest guy there!
Don



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