Martin, VK2UMJ wrote:

Then again, we faced this kind of narrow minded, arrogant discrimination
when they proposed access to amateur frequencies by operators that hadn't
learnt CW... Seems it is just another example of the old timers stomping
their feet because times are changing - must've been real hard when valves
were replaced!

Exactly martin! I do have to say though that things have gotten somewhat
better in the last 25 years I've been licensed.

Back then new Novice licenses were pretty much scum of the earth to the old
timers.

I got my full call pretty quickly and it was amazing the difference in the
way I was treated (for no _real_ reason).

Although that often changed when I voiced opinions about how morse shouldn't
be a requirement for HF (even though I'd passed the fast morse) or that
this new fangled packet radio was the first wave of the future.

G-S VK3DMN