In article , Alun
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in
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"Alun" wrote in message
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in
gy.com:


"Alun" wrote in message
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in
gy.com:


"Kim W5TIT" wrote in message
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I personally don't have the desire to "take advantage of" CW. I
haven't been interested in CW since I was first introduced to it
and found it nothing more than a necessary evil--a means to an
end--to licensing in amateur radio. I also found it uniquely
lacking in any pertinent application to the process of amateur
radio, overall.

I believe you have previously stated that once you tried HF, you
did not care for it and have since stayed primarily with VHF FM.
There's nothing wrong with that. However, those who work a lot
of HF are really shortchanging themselves if they are unable to
use CW.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

I work a lot of HF, relatively speaking, and I have considered
wiring up a key from time to time, but decided against it.
Shortchanging myself? I don't think so. I'm happy to stay on phone.
Now, I have met people who don't like phone, and I'm fine with
that. It just so happens that I don't like CW, in the sense of I
have no desire to use it. That should be OK too, but for some
reason it bothers you. Why?

No it does not bother me that someone who has learned it chooses not
to use it. They have made that decision from a position of
knowledge and experience. This is radically different from a person
judging it and saying they will never use it when they do not have
that knowledge and experience to draw on.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

And yet you say code is "necessary"? As an unqualified blanket
statement that is laughable.

Nope it is not laughable. There are many necessary things in life that
people do not do. They choose for reasons of their own to omit them.
Annual physicals are a "necessary" item for people of middle age and
older but I know quite a few people who do not get them. Keeping one's
weight under control is "necessary" but there's a lot of us carrying
more weight than we should.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

So, let me get this straight, you are saying it's necessary for me to use
CW, and comparing not doing it with failing to get a physical. I don't
think that argument will hold water. The consequences of not using CW are
what, exactly?

It is unhealthy for Dee's state of mind not to love CW. :-)

LHA