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October 30th 06, 12:55 AM
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What is the ARRL's thought on having good amateurs?
Dee Flint wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Dee Flint wrote: wrote in message oups.com... 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? Beats me. But you know what they say. There's the right way, the wrong way and the Army way. I would not presume to pass judgement on their training. However it may be that some of the recruits have not yet learned to read a schematic and have never operated a soldering iron. I'm quite sure that is not part of basic training. What's to know? Follow the little lines, right? And a soldering pencil is just another appliance. 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? So what if it is boring. That is no reason not to learn it. I suspected that digital would end up being boring but since I believe that a person should be striving to increase their knowledge and skills, I decided it was time to become familiar with this area. Afterall, I might find myself in the position of being asked to Elmer someone in this area. 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. They have different goals and objectives than amateur radio. Saving lives and property. Highly disimilar from amateur radio. Government agencies and commercial business do not have the goal of individual self training and experimentation. Comparing amateur radio to government/commercial applications is like comparing apples to pomegranates. They're both red fruits but there the similarity ends. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE That must be why the GROL exam was lifted from the Amateur Advanced Exam (minus the amateur rules and CW req't). |
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