DICK, what was past is past.


My grandfather (God rest his soul, he passed away
7 years ago) lived to the ripe old age of 87. Every now
and then he'd get really drunk on vodka, and then go
into a past-recalling delirium where he'd keep talking
about the need to have a horse and buggy give you a
ride if you wanted to make it back into his neck of
the woods all the way from the main road.

The next morning he'd sober up and find himself back
in the modern day era. The horse and buggy were long
gone.

Clint
KB5ZHT

I have this hilarious vision of elementary school students on a
field trip to the local museum in the not to distant future... and
they see a strange gismo on a table on the other side of a
purple-fuzzy rope thing, covered with dust and cobwebs.... the
museum director has to kindly explain to them, "that's a morse
code key. It was used to send morse code signals many decades
ago back when it was used as a means of communication.."

and a student raises his hand and says, "morse WHAT?"

Clint
KB5ZHT

Very difficult? Oh please. I passed all three tests (5, 13, 20) with 10
of
10 right on the written and solid copy for each.

AH, so it's EASY? SIMPLE? hah, proof then there's no point. Other
hams kept saying it was a discipline of selftraining, and you just said
it was as breeze. Well, if it's a natural as breathing air, then, no need
to test it.

End of discussion.

It's SO easy :)

Clint
KB5ZHT

Why don't you
just alienate all the elmers out there while your at it?



I don't see a problem in that, if they are going to be
so condescending as to treat young people as though
it's not possible for them to know anything simply
because they haven't lived for 233 years.

Clint
KB5ZHT

"Len Over 21" wrote in part ...

I snipped theother droll parts, but this I found interesting

According to the US Census Bureau, there are over 100 million cellular
telephone subscribers in the USA. There are over 150 million "hard-wired"
telephones in the USA. What is the point of your little "viable technology"
diatribe? And why in the hell aren't you OUT THERE being ten kinds of EM
manager with impending doom/disaster from Isabel?
__________________________________________________ _________________

My point exactly, Len. Why waste all that money on hard-wired technology
when we have nearly as many wireless phones already. Put that archaic
technology to bed, right? Isn't that your mantra?

And once again, I really do appreciate your concern for my job performance.
I'll make sure to tell my boss that you asked. :-)

Arnie -
KT4ST

"Clint" rattlehead@computronDOTnet wrote in message
...

Very difficult? Oh please. I passed all three tests (5, 13, 20) with
10
of
10 right on the written and solid copy for each.

AH, so it's EASY? SIMPLE? hah, proof then there's no point. Other
hams kept saying it was a discipline of selftraining, and you just said
it was as breeze. Well, if it's a natural as breathing air, then, no need
to test it.

End of discussion.

It's SO easy :)

The scary bit is if you keep applying logic to this argument, it
just keeps getting wierder. One of 'em rebutted the "I had to do it, so
should you" argument by basically saying, uhm..."I had to do it, so should
you."






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"Clint" wrote ...

you find the idea of wanting to keep your conscience and life in the modern
day era? sounds like you suffer from dementia.
__________________________________________________ ___________

Now, that was even funnier. Not even a cogent sentence.

Arnie -

you find the idea of wanting to keep your conscience and
life in the modern day era? sounds like you suffer from
dementia.

Clint
KB5ZHT

You No-Code Kooks keep throwing the words "modern day era" out. What is that
supposed to me?

"Clint" wrote ...

I don't see a problem in that, if they are going to be so condescending as
to treat young people as though it's not possible for them to know anything
simply because they haven't lived for 233 years.
__________________________________________________ _________________

I'm not surprised by your answer at all, Clint. Someone calls you "son" and
you get all bent out of shape and have to 'show them a thing or two'. The
only problem -- you will have missed out on a plethora of knowledge because
of that attitude. Too bad, really.

Arnie -
KT4ST

In article ilgate.org, "Hans
K0HB" writes:

"N2EY" wrote


Then answer this question: Why should people who are not interested in
building or fixing their radios have to learn all that theory stuff
for the written tests? Why are all hams tested on all sorts of stuff
they are not interested in?

Because the terms of their license make them responsible for the quality
of their radiated signal(s).

Without demonstrating some familiarity with the basic underlying
science, it would be irresponsible of the regulators to allow an
applicant to establish a radio transmitting station on the public
airways. Familiarize yourself with the concept "tragedy of the
commons".

That's very incorrect, Hans Kohb.

Everyone knows that "CW" gets through when nothing else will, so
all that is required for amateur radio is to demonstrate on-off keying
morse code ability and that will suffice.

Right?

LHA