Issued there new De-Coder rings yet?

Those will ship with the new Yeasucobra 2000.

It's a special package worked out between Yeasu, Cobra, Super America Truck
Stops, and NCI®.

They are teaming up to offer a new Super HF'er rig that fits nicely into any
truck or table top. Covers the entire Ham Radio band, 11 through 160 meters.

The first 1000 units ship with a nice autographed picture of Carl, the guru
of modern day Ham Radio.

I can hardly wait!

10-73 y'all!

"WA8ULX" wrote in message
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Issued there new De-Coder rings yet?

(WA8ULX) wrote in message ...
Issued there new De-Coder rings yet?

Why bother? DICK sends code so poorly that it cannot be copied.

Why bother? DICK sends code so poorly that it cannot be copied.


Thats not the CODE I was talking about.

hmmm..
a little sour over your precious CW testing being
discontinued, world-wide?

Clint
KB5ZHT

In article , "Clint"
rattlehead@computronDOTnet writes:

hmmm..
a little sour over your precious CW testing being
discontinued, world-wide?

Not "sour" at all.

But 8 countries (so far) is hardly "world wide".

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It will be really interesting to see what happens to ham radio in countries
where code testing is totally eliminated.

Will there be big increases in growth (i.e., lots of new hams)?

Will there be lots of new technology brought to the ARS by new hams for whom
the code test was a "barrier"?

Time will tell.

Not "sour" at all.

But 8 countries (so far) is hardly "world wide".


hm, I see.... um, and you know the one and only
acceptable definition of "world wide" huh? I guess
i've missed where it's written that "world wide"
is composed of no less than 9 countries.

The fact is, it would only take two seperate nations
to call something "multinational" or "international".. so,
would it comfort you a little more if I were to have said
"internationally, code testing is being dropped"?

you'd also do well to make a case study of how many hams
are represented by the nations that are dropping it. Many
nations that aren't are composed of nations with fewer than
a dozen hams.... and a few that are run by dicators
(lybia) have 1 and only 1 ham operator.... guess who.....

Clint
KB5ZHT

In article , "Clint"
rattlehead@computronDOTnet writes:

Not "sour" at all.

But 8 countries (so far) is hardly "world wide".


hm, I see.... um, and you know the one and only
acceptable definition of "world wide" huh?

Nope.

However, I find it hard to believe that anyone would reasonably call 9
countries (*so far*) would constitute "world wide" when there are many more
countries yet to make a change.

I guess
i've missed where it's written that "world wide"
is composed of no less than 9 countries.

I guess i've missed where it's written that "world wide"
is composed of no more than 9 countries - out of how many?

The fact is, it would only take two seperate nations
to call something "multinational" or "international".. so,
would it comfort you a little more if I were to have said
"internationally, code testing is being dropped"?

Better yet - just say "So far, it's been removed in 9 countries".

you'd also do well to make a case study of how many hams
are represented by the nations that are dropping it. Many
nations that aren't are composed of nations with fewer than
a dozen hams.... and a few that are run by dicators
(lybia) have 1 and only 1 ham operator.... guess who.....

Then tell us - how many hams are represented by the 8 nations that are removing
code testing? How many hams are there in Singapore, Switzerland, the UK,
Belgium, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, and Ireland...?

Here's the country to watch: Japan. They've had an HF license with no code test
for decades. (It's their 4th class license). And they used to have the world's
largest amateur population.

But about 1995 their numbers started dropping and they continue to fall. Why?

Some say it's the Japanese economy
Some say it's the Internet
Some say it's cheap cell phones
And some say it's the code test for the other licenses.

But Japan still has code testing. Maybe that will change.

(Note that Japan issues separate operator and station licenses. *Operator*
licenses are free and never expire, so the operator license totals never
decline. *Station* licenses have to be renewed and cost money (120 yen).
Station licenses are declining rapidly.

However, I find it hard to believe that anyone would reasonably call 9
countries (*so far*) would constitute "world wide"

oh, okay. So I guess you'll be the standard to which "reasonable" will
be defined. Got ya.

"N2EY" wrote in message
...
In article , "Clint"
rattlehead@computronDOTnet writes:

hmmm..
a little sour over your precious CW testing being
discontinued, world-wide?

Not "sour" at all.

But 8 countries (so far) is hardly "world wide".

For what its worth...here's the IARU policy direction:

NEWS RELEASE
International Amateur Radio Union
P.O. Box 310905
Newington, CT 06131-0905 USA
FAX: +1 860 594 0259
E-Mail:
12 September 2003

For immediate release

IARU Council Addresses Strategic Issues
The Administrative Council of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)
held
its annual meeting on 6-8 September 2003 in Amsterdam. The meeting was to be
held in Taipei in conjunction with the IARU Region 3 Conference but was
moved to
Amsterdam when the Region 3 Conference had to be postponed to next year as a
result of travel restrictions arising from concerns about SARS. The Council
took
the following actions:

1. Four hours of the meeting were devoted to a strategic planning session
with a
planning horizon of the year 2010. Several key issues that are likely to
influence the future of the IARU were identified. A report is to be drafted
and
circulated for further consideration by the Council early in 2004.

2. The results of the 2003 World Radiocommunication Conference concerning
the
amateur and amateur-satellite services were reviewed in detail. The Council
congratulated and thanked all individuals and organizations who contributed
to
the satisfactory outcome. IARU member-societies were urged to bring to the
attention of their administrations the desirability of adopting specific
changes
in their domestic regulations for the amateur and amateur-satellite
services, so
that they will be consistent with the revised Article 25 of the
international
Radio Regulations.

3. The Council revised an existing Resolution concerning the Morse code in
the
light of the WRC-03 decision to leave to each administration the question of
whether or not to require a demonstration of Morse skill to operate below 30
MHz. Under the revised Resolution, IARU policy is to support the removal of
Morse code testing requirements.

(SNIP)

Attending the Amsterdam meeting were IARU President Larry Price, W4RA; Vice
President David Wardlaw, VK3ADW; Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ; regional
representatives Ole Garpestad, LA2RR, Don Beattie, G3BJ, Hans Blondeel
Timmerman, PB2T, Pedro Seidemann, YV5BPG, Rod Stafford, W6ROD, Tim Ellam,
VE6SH,
Fred Johnson, ZL2AMJ, K. C. Selvadurai, 9V1UV, and Yoshiji Sekido, JJ1OEY;
and
recording secretary Paul Rinaldo, W4RI.