From: on Sun, Oct 29 2006 6:32am

Dee Flint wrote:
wrote in message
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The ONLY separate pass-fail TEST is for manual telegraphy.

Wow! I guess CW is more valued than ALL OF THE OTHER MODES COMBINED!

Not so. However, all the digital and image modes are merely a matter of
connecting the radio to the computer and running the appropriate software.

Then why do the military service have technical schools to do somehting
so very simple?

Why aren't the communications billets merely a direct duty assignment
after basic training?

Heh heh heh...I can't wait to see Dee's answer on that! :-)

Once I decided to try the digital thing, I made the interface and was up and
running in an hour. After a couple of months, it became rather boring.

Do you suppose that there are licensed amateurs that find CW boring?

Gosh, from what I've seen, DATA on ham bands is a lot like
the old computer-modem comms by wireline! Sort of like the
Internet and USENET access now. Maybe Dee just get 'bored'
easily?

Maybe Dee actually "works" USENET by morse code and her ISP
'translates' that into text? :-)

On
the other hand, code needs to be learned before it can be tried. Many
people will give up learning before they've had a chance to try it if there
is not a test for it.

Whole government agencies gave up on code. Commercial businesses gave
up on code.

Sunnuvagun! :-)

Maybe the whole rest of the radio world KNOWS something that the
morsepersons don't?

From: on Sun, Oct 29 2006 1:50 pm

On 29 Oct 2006 13:43:20 -0800, "
wrote:
From: on Sun, Oct 29 2006 6:32am
Dee Flint wrote:
wrote in message
wrote:


The ONLY separate pass-fail TEST is for manual telegraphy.

Wow! I guess CW is more valued than ALL OF THE OTHER MODES COMBINED!

Not so. However, all the digital and image modes are merely a matter of
connecting the radio to the computer and running the appropriate software.

Then why do the military service have technical schools to do somehting
so very simple?

Why aren't the communications billets merely a direct duty assignment
after basic training?

Heh heh heh...I can't wait to see Dee's answer on that! :-)

she choose to duck it

I expected that. Next in line is good old Jimmie Noserve. :-)


Once I decided to try the digital thing, I made the interface and was up and
running in an hour. After a couple of months, it became rather boring.

Do you suppose that there are licensed amateurs that find CW boring?

Gosh, from what I've seen, DATA on ham bands is a lot like
the old computer-modem comms by wireline! Sort of like the
Internet and USENET access now. Maybe Dee just get 'bored'
easily?

and of course what bores HER MUST bore the rest of us

There ya go!

What was late Marie Antoinnette saying about cake? :-)


Whole government agencies gave up on code. Commercial businesses gave
up on code.

Sunnuvagun! :-)

Maybe the whole rest of the radio world KNOWS something that the
morsepersons don't?

sure they do everybody knows something others don't even the Morse
People know things they are just too bigg for their keyers

Heh heh heh heh...Morsepersons are SUPERIOR to ordinaries.

The morsepersons had to test for morse code so everyone else
damn well had to test for it too! :-)

Yawn...just another day in RRAP where the SUPERIOR ones look
down their paddles at the mundane mortals...AS IF they were
really superior. :-)

" wrote in
ups.com:


Heh heh heh heh...Morsepersons are SUPERIOR to ordinaries.


Salute us when you say that.


The morsepersons had to test for morse code so everyone else
damn well had to test for it too! :-)


Yes, because we'd rather work ambishes ops than lazy no code ones...
errr, I mean lazy no good ones.


Yawn...just another day in RRAP where the SUPERIOR ones look
down their paddles at the mundane mortals...AS IF they were
really superior. :-)




Wheeew! Starting to get a bit gassy again at the end there.


SC