Len Over 21 wrote:

In article , Alun
writes:

Well, I guess that's a religeous issue, so I won't be able to convince you
otherwise.

If you look me up you'll see I'm an Extra, and you'll be able to figure
out that I passed 20 wpm. What you won't see, is that I've been a ham
since 1980, not 1992, as I'm not originally from this country.

Alun, with all due respect, such experience ist VERBOTEN in this
chat room.

Len, with all the respect that you feel you're due, this still isn't a
chat room.

The requirement to exist in this chat room requires a struct obediance
to morsemanship, tradition forever rooted in old ways back before all
the morseodist regulars ever existed.

That flies in the face of evidence that there are a wide number of views
expressed here. Once again, this isn't a chat room.

However, ham radio is not a job or a vocation, just a hobby.

Hobby, avocation, interest, passion--it still boils down to the fact
that you aren't involved in it.

In this chat room, the REGULARS maintain a LIFESTYLE of devotion,
obediance to love honor and obey amateur radio in all its past glory.

This isn't a chat room and I submit that you have no way of knowing what
regulars who post here do in amateur radio. You don't have a close
friendship with any of them and you aren't connected to amateur radio.
By the way, aren't YOU a regular here?

LIFESTYLES take precedence over logic, common sense, and
anything else not associated with amateur radio (except Michael
Jackson, foreign policy, overall economic decisions by government
and partisan politics).

It would be interesting to see you come up with proof of the LIFESTYLES
claim or of your peculiar ideas about logic, common sense, etc. If
logic and common sense prevailed, you'd likely not haunt this newgroup
at all.

Ham radio to the regulars is far more than a vocation.

Excuse me, aren't you a regular? Do you believe that ham radio is more
than a vocation? Has anyone else here told you that they believe it?

Vocations
in radio are to be pejorated, denigrated, spat upon, reviled, made fun
of and other niceties of the TURF where chat room homies consider
their 'hood.

Now you're blowing smoke. I can't remember anyone taking shots at my
voacation in communications except YOU. So the guy complaining about
others not respecting his work in radio is the same guy insulting my
work in radio. Isn't that precious?

Good old Len "Do As I say and not as I do" Anderson!

Dave K8MN