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.

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.

Don