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Dee Flint wrote:
If you don't have room for good food then you don't have room for junk. Dessert is junk???? Not when K0CKB puts it on the dining table! Maybe you need some of her recipes, if your desserts are "junk"! dit dit de Hans, K0HB |
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#143
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"Dee Flint" wrote in message ... By the way I happen to think that all should be required to learn to swim whether or not they think they may use it. I happen to consider it a basic skill in life that all should know. That's interesting. I tend to be more libertarian (small "l"), leaving such decisions up to the individual rather than a societal (government?) "all should be required" mandate. While it's easy to make the argument that swimming is a useful skill beyond it's recreational value (just as you might make a slightly weaker argument that Morse is a useful beyond it's recreational value), society really has no vested interest strong enough to dictate "all should be required" to develop the skill of swimming. If they did, then the next layer of busy-bodies would busy themselves deciding which swimming strokes ought to be required, which section of the beach we'd be allowed to use (depending on our tested swimming speed), and requiring that all non-swimmers live only in arid locations like Arizona and New Mexico. 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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KØHB wrote: "Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... ..... my point that you can argue yourself out of any testing via your argument...... No you can't. Yes you can. I fully support a Morse familiarity test. Cross my heart and hope to die! I just don't support a "skill demonstration", unless you want to require a "skill demonstration" of every knowledge area on the test, and deny licenses to everyone who cannot demonstrate all required skills. No other part of the testing is a skill. You can buy a Yeacomwood rig, have other people set up your antenna and setup. You can talk into a microphone, (assuming that people know to mash the PTT or adaptive device that performs the same function) and it will "work". I can buy or download and install the software that I use for PSK31. It's a major stretch to consider that a skill. More like knowledge. But CW is a different matter. You aren't going to read a book and sit down at the key and start sending or receiving Morse. *Thst's* a skill. Even with computer generated Morse and Receiving programs such as CWGet (all which do s so-so job of the mode) it is a valuable skill which can work with minimal equipment. - Mike KB3EIA - |
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"Michael Coslo" wrote in message ... Refined sugar is indeed junk. No matter how good it tastes. How did "refined sugar" enter the conversation? Clearly you need to broaden your culinary horizons! Good luck on this one now! 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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"Michael Coslo" wrote in message
... No other part of the testing is a skill. My point EXACTLY, Mike. While there are many skills associated with our hobby, only one of those skills is singled out for a required demonstration. Interestingly, if that skill is so vital as to need a skill demonstration, it would seem that no-one who had not been tested would be allowed to use it on the air. Yet a basic Technician licensee is perfectly free to use Morse on the air without having passed a Morse test. So much for the need for a demonstration before a license grant! 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:55:51 -0400, Michael Coslo wrote:
If you don't have room for good food then you don't have room for junk. Dessert is junk???? Not when K0CKB puts it on the dining table! Maybe you need some of her recipes, if your desserts are "junk"! Refined sugar is indeed junk. No matter how good it tastes. One of my wife's avocations is specialty dessert and cake catering (she's taught that for years and at times has even made money doing it commercially). Her specialty is diabetic-safe products (I'm a diabetic) - low fat and no refined (or unrefined) sugar. She duplicates about 95% of what one can find on a fancy "sweet table" (marshmellow requires the crystalline structure of "real" sugar) and I most certainly do not suffer from a lack of "goodies" all year round. Dessert is one of the basic food groups..... ggg -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane |
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Dessert is one of the basic food groups..... ggg -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane If Mike and Dee say it's junk, then don't you be goin' messin' up their conservative minds with any such heresy. Besides, if you haven't time to learn Morse, then you ain't got no time to be eating no sweetened food. Clean up those green beans too, before you go study your code. 73, de Hans, K0HB (My kids think I'm a real "mother"!) |
#149
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a cushy job when he saw it and such "motiviation" wouldn't be needed. Maybe for those who knew what was up then. But a helluva lot of conscipts are historically cluless no matter what era and want out at any cost and WW2 days were desperate times. I had thought that WW2 was a popular war, in that most everyone saw the need to do that war. Not like Vietnam, which seemed to be a pointless quagmire, to be avoided at all costs. |
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"robert casey" wrote in message link.net... I had thought that WW2 was a popular war, in that most everyone saw the need to do that war. Every war is "popular" to a certain extent among those who aren't required to attend. It becomes markedly less popular among those whose attendance is involuntary. 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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