On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 09:52:07 -0500, "Kim W5TIT"
wrote:

"Bob Brock" wrote in message
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:21:53 -0500, "Kim W5TIT"
wrote:

"Bob Brock" wrote in message
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I'll tell you guys why I'm here shortly, but conversing with twits
like you sure isn't it.


Oh!! Hold me back!! Now he's getting suspenseful!

Kim W5TIT

OK Kim, I'll keep you in suspense no more. Whether some like to admit
it or not, the senseless Morse Code debate will soon be history. I'm
here to see if the ham community will then move on to something really
important like revising the written tests and the test pools so that
when someone passes the test, they actually know how to use a radio,
set up or build an antenna, the protocols on the frequencies they are
authouized to use, how to minimize RF exposure and stay within safe
levels. If someone doesn't know what all those buttons do on their
radio, they shouldn't be licensed to use it. If they don't know
enough not to use repeater imputs for simplex operation, they
shouldn't be licensed to use the frequency.

It's my hope that when it is all over with Morse, that the ham
community will address the real important issues and Morse ain't it.
It is at best a scapegoat that hams can argue about while the more
important issues of licensing inept operators is ignored. IMO, the
ham community has some really screwed up priorities and hopefully,
with the endgame for code in sight, they may....just may come to grips
with some real issues.

I'm hopeful, but not expectant.


This newsgroup is not the place to find intellectual, even-handed debate,
Bob. You're way off base with your concept if you think it is. It just
isn't. QRZ, eHam.net, or others maybe, but not this one...

And, lose the idea that the CW thing is going to die--it's not. If you are
that serious about wanting to change the wheel, then get involved heavily in
the ARRL and W5YI. Use those venues to affect change; but you'd better be
willing to take giant baby steps at a time--and I don't think you're that
serious. That's not an insult--few people have the fortitude, time, and
stamina it takes to turn a wheel. I tried for four years--and most of my
free time. Didn't work. Giant baby steps=hugely small steps at a time.

Kim W5TIT

Kim, within a year the only debate in here about CW will be about the
consequences of it no longer being required. The whining will be
terrible for awhile, but like the no-code tech discussions, they will
eventually disappear.

However, you are right about one thing. This is not the place to look
without heavy filtering of those who are incapable of logical
discussion. I think I'll hang around for a while just to watch the
endgame.

Bob Brock wrote in message . ..

Kim, within a year the only debate in here about CW will be about the
consequences of it no longer being required. The whining will be
terrible for awhile, but like the no-code tech discussions, they will
eventually disappear.

Ooooh, huge, huge miscalcualtion, Brock. You give these guys way too
much credit. These guys have memories like an elephant, and they will
carrry the debate to their graves. Which is why I say that the only
cure are the actuarial tables. They are as unyielding as the PCTA,
till the bitter end.