On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:44:58 -0500, "Liberals R. Intolerant"
wrote:

The FCC is finally dropping the CW requirement. Now the younger
generation may be attracted - if it's not too late.

Yeah!!!!!!!!

In one evening we went from the 19th Century to the 21st Century!!!

Finally!!!

A day for all CBer's to be proud of!

You can tell the hams who have not listened to CB in quite a while. It's
about dead compared to what it was in the 70s. Hardly any truckers using
it either. So the constant reference to CBers really shows ignorance.

Dropping the CW requirement is about 15 years too late. It will help,
but young people have too many other interests now like computers and
the Internet to get interested now and they still have beliefs that this
is an old-fart hobby with morse code. Hard to change that perception,
especially when you have so many old-farts trying to keep people out of
the service.


helmsman wrote:
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:44:58 -0500, "Liberals R. Intolerant"
wrote:

The FCC is finally dropping the CW requirement. Now the younger
generation may be attracted - if it's not too late.

Yeah!!!!!!!!

In one evening we went from the 19th Century to the 21st Century!!!

Finally!!!

A day for all CBer's to be proud of!

Liberals R. Intolerant wrote:
You can tell the hams who have not listened to CB in quite a while. It's
about dead compared to what it was in the 70s. Hardly any truckers using

Living in the central valley in calif and near a few major freeways,
channel 17 is quite busy all day, and their is much activity even late
into the night.

It would be nice if amateur radio experienced the boon which cb did
experience in the 70's. However, I fear the importance of radio beside
the internet will prevent this from happening.

Regards,
JS

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:04:27 -0800, John Smith
wrote:

Liberals R. Intolerant wrote:
You can tell the hams who have not listened to CB in quite a while. It's
about dead compared to what it was in the 70s. Hardly any truckers using

Living in the central valley in calif and near a few major freeways,
channel 17 is quite busy all day, and their is much activity even late
into the night.

It would be nice if amateur radio experienced the boon which cb did
experience in the 70's. However, I fear the importance of radio beside
the internet will prevent this from happening.

Regards,
JS

Hopefully the no coders will use cellfones.

We're all no-coders now. No CW exam, no-code. So get your cell phone out
there helmsman. Can you hear me now?

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:13:46 +0000, helmsman wrote:


Hopefully the no coders will use cellfones.

Liberals R. Intolerant wrote:
The FCC is finally dropping the CW requirement. Now the younger
generation may be attracted - if it's not too late.

Yeah!!!!!!!!

In one evening we went from the 19th Century to the 21st Century!!!

Finally!!!

And I am a 13WPM General.

Actually, the only change I really see is that now CW will be seen for
what it actually is, a talent some excel at. In todays world it has
little importance in radio and/or electronics and communication. And,
in past decades has served no real purpose, other than limiting the
numbers of members in the group. This protectionism has severed those
who wished to make amateur radio a limited group of them and their
friends, however, amateur radio has suffered greatly and lost much in
new minds with new ideas who would serve to keep the hobby up-to-date
and relevant in this millennium ...

Sometime in the future, I suspect, some who have drifted into the world
of psychotic behavior will see how silly they have been, and will become
ashamed over their past behavior.

Regards,
JS

Great insight and sooooo true!

John Smith wrote:

And I am a 13WPM General.

Actually, the only change I really see is that now CW will be seen for
what it actually is, a talent some excel at. In todays world it has
little importance in radio and/or electronics and communication. And,
in past decades has served no real purpose, other than limiting the
numbers of members in the group. This protectionism has severed those
who wished to make amateur radio a limited group of them and their
friends, however, amateur radio has suffered greatly and lost much in
new minds with new ideas who would serve to keep the hobby up-to-date
and relevant in this millennium ...

Sometime in the future, I suspect, some who have drifted into the world
of psychotic behavior will see how silly they have been, and will become
ashamed over their past behavior.

Regards,
JS