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"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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Bill Sohl wrote:
"Dick Carroll;" wrote in message

some snippage

that is always pooh-poohed by the code/code test bashers. They just
won't
recognize it for what it is.
Or maybe they *can't*.


So a nocode tech has no interest in amateur radio because s/he
didn't take a morse test then? Bunk.

Same old, same old.


Gee Bill, that ain't been said! Lets see if I can help out here....

I was a NoCode Tech once. I was interested, and took the test necessary
to get that license.

Then I was interested in getting my General ticket. Here, I needed to
learn Morse code in addition to another written exam. But I was
interested, and learned and passed the tests (flunked the MOrse first
time around) I got the General ticket.

Then I was interested in getting the extra frequency bandwidth and
whatever else that the Extra ticket gives. So I studied for and passed
the test.


In each case, I was "interested" in something. I could have stopped
anywhere along the line, and while exercising my right to not learn
something, the only effect would have been to not get the license.

Would you agree that a person who takes the Extra test is more
interested in getting the Extra ticket than a person possessing a
General license who does not want to because they won't get all that
much in the way of privileges?

What I find strange is that some who are distinctly anti-code test are
having trouble with what I am saying here.

It is either that I am having trouble expressing myself, or that some
folk are just not going to hear what I am saying no matter how many
times I say it..


Okay one more time. Two young ladies are thinking about getting their
drivers licenses. Ida Know wants to get a drivers license, but she is
terrified of three point turns, to the point that she says "Forget it,
I'll just walk or take the bus".

Her friend, Ella Fyno, is also concerned about the three point turn.
But she decides that even if she hardly ever uses the three point turn,
that she'll buckle down and learn how. She works on the three point
turn, eventually passes her license test, and now is happily driving.

WHO was MORE interested in getting that drivers license?

It's not a comparison of the relationship of driving a car to an
Amateur license, or silly names I come up with. It is a question of
different people with different levels of interest in something.

- Mike KB3EIA -


BUT, Mike, it sounded (and still does just a little bit) that you weren't
comparing license level interest to license level interest. It sounded
more, to me, like you were comparing Novice in ham radio is less interested
that General in ham radio.

I would say to you, if you in any way think like that, that I know many
higher class licensed individuals who have a long way to catch up in the
drive and ambition I had (had=past tense) to promote amateur radio. I was
*very* interested in ham radio--probably more than any other ham I
personally know.

The drive to "get more" doesn't equal a level of interest in amateur radio.
In my opinion. Your drive to become an Extra sounds more like an ambition
to thumb your nose at those who did not.

Kim W5TIT