From: "K=D8=88B" on Wed,Apr 20 2005 3:51 pm

"Dee Flint" wrote in message
...

We each must choose our activities based on our personal priorities.

Thank you very much, Captain Obvious.

[...or Captain Oblivious...]

[may the aphorisms be with Dee, said Obe-wan...]

But do not whine and cry to change the requirements simply because
it's not
high enough on your priority list
to put some time into it.

I wouldn't characterize it as "whine and cry" (unless I wanted to
prejudice the
audience). Seems more like "this is my opinion on the matter".

Nahhhhh...some REALLY believe in their conditioning,
that morse code testing must ALWAYS be required as
"necessary" to operate transmitters below 30 MHz!

U.S. hams have always had code testing to get a
license...and they MUST always have such a test.
It's engraved on their synapses or something...

Besides if you haven't time to study code 15 minutes
per day, you don't have time to study the theory either.

Is that kinda like when you told your child "if you haven't got room
for more
green beans, then you don't have room for dessert either"

Sometimes the "mothering" bit gets extreme in here...


As you said, a person must get started to learn anything.
The first ones are difficult for all of us. Like anything else it
takes time
to get good.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something,
learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is
full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant
without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
---Bokonon in "Cat's
Cradle"

...I'm beginning to appreciate that quote... :-)

The Righteous Wrath of the Deep Conditioned has
become the new fire and brimstone of the
morseatangelous.

"Actually, what is being discussed is freedom of choice of modes
in a hobby in a free society. There is absolutely nothing prohibiting
someone who wants to take full advantage of CW's many
advantages from becoming skillful in the mode."
--- CAM in RRAP

Bless Cecil Moore's heart! :-)

However, according to some of the Deep Conditioned in
here, amateur radio is a SERVICE! "Nowhere in the FCC
regulations do they [FCC] say it is a 'hobby'!" and
other Righteous Wrath of the True Believers (making
like they are the subject of 'Bokonon's' observation).

Sunuvagun!

Right! :-)

"Zere will be NO laughing in zis camp!" - Sessue
Hayakawa's line as the POW commandant in the film,
"Bridge on the River Quai."