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January 31st 04, 09:54 PM

In article ,
(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) writes:

I am not an NCI supporter...

That's good!

I am resigned to the fact that we've
tossed a major skill down the drain,

"we've tossed"??!! I'm *NOT* part of that "we", and I don't think you
are either, Steve!

*Some* would like to toss that skill down the drain, but not all.

and I'd just like to minimize the damage.

That's good! One way to do that is to encourage rather than discourage
the development and use of that major skill by hams.

73 de Jim, N2EY

January 31st 04, 11:24 PM

(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com...
(William) wrote in message . com...

Steve, now that you're an NCI supporter, would you like to join?

I am not an NCI supporter...

Maybe not a supporter. "Defender" might have been a better word
choice. ;^))

I am resigned to the fact that we've
tossed a major skill down the drain, and I'd just like to minimize the
damage.

Nope. Just an exam. Want to replace it with a stand alone exam on
rules and regs? Amateur history?

And the mode still exists and can even be used on all amateur
allocations ('cept a little bit of 220).

I served in the Armed Forces to protect the "majority rules"
concept, and this is one of those times that I came out on the short
end of the stick. Oh well...Got to make the best of it.

73

Steve, K4YZ

Keep your chin up and your head down.

bb

February 2nd 04, 03:40 PM

(William) wrote in message om...
(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com...
(William) wrote in message . com...

Steve, now that you're an NCI supporter, would you like to join?

I am not an NCI supporter...

Maybe not a supporter. "Defender" might have been a better word
choice.

Nor do I "defend" NCI or any of it's "policies". I realize there
are some well-meaning, well-intentioned folks in NCI who think they
are doing (did) the right thing. I respect them for standing up for
thier beliefs and using the democratic system the way it was meant to
be used, but therein ends any "mutual" understanding.

I am resigned to the fact that we've
tossed a major skill down the drain, and I'd just like to minimize the
damage.

Nope. Just an exam. Want to replace it with a stand alone exam on
rules and regs? Amateur history?

If "Amateur history" was able to allow folks with dissimilar
languages to communicate via 2-way radio, even in this most
rudimentary manner, then yes, I'd support it.

However it doesn't. Morse Code however, does.

And the mode still exists and can even be used on all amateur
allocations ('cept a little bit of 220).

I served in the Armed Forces to protect the "majority rules"
concept, and this is one of those times that I came out on the short
end of the stick. Oh well...Got to make the best of it.

Keep your chin up and your head down.

I wonder if the chips had fallen the other way if the NCI folks
would have been as accepting...?!?! I doubt it...liberals never do.
73

Steve, K4YZ

February 2nd 04, 06:51 PM

(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com...
(William) wrote in message om...
(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com...

I served in the Armed Forces to protect the "majority rules"
concept, and this is one of those times that I came out on the short
end of the stick. Oh well...Got to make the best of it.

Keep your chin up and your head down.

I wonder if the chips had fallen the other way if the NCI folks
would have been as accepting...?!?! I doubt it...liberals never do.
73

Steve, K4YZ

Steve, the NPRM came out in 1998 with the writing on the wall. You've
had a long time to get used to the idea, and a long time to accept it.
You've suprised me recenty with a mature attitude toward the whole
ordeal - thanks.

Had the chips gone the other way we simply would have kept trying.

73, Brian

February 3rd 04, 04:23 AM

(William) wrote in message

Steve, the NPRM came out in 1998 with the writing on the wall. You've
had a long time to get used to the idea, and a long time to accept it.
You've suprised me recenty with a mature attitude toward the whole
ordeal - thanks.

It's been my "attitude" all along.

Had the chips gone the other way we simply would have kept trying.

I doubt it...The whining and the cries of "FOUL" would have been
reverberating for decades.

73, Brian

I shudda known.

Steve, K4YZ

February 3rd 04, 08:03 PM

In article ,
(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) writes:

(William) wrote in message

Steve, the NPRM came out in 1998 with the writing on the wall. You've
had a long time to get used to the idea, and a long time to accept it.
You've suprised me recenty with a mature attitude toward the whole
ordeal - thanks.

It's been my "attitude" all along.

...which seems to have started only a week or so ago...after months
and months of "putz" and "scumminess" statements. :-)

Had the chips gone the other way we simply would have kept trying.

I doubt it...The whining and the cries of "FOUL" would have been
reverberating for decades.

"Vigilance in the defense of liberty is no vice." - B.G.

73, Brian

I shudda known.

Took you that long to discover the obvious?

LHA / WMD

February 3rd 04, 11:44 PM

(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com...
(William) wrote in message

Steve, the NPRM came out in 1998 with the writing on the wall. You've
had a long time to get used to the idea, and a long time to accept it.
You've suprised me recenty with a mature attitude toward the whole
ordeal - thanks.

It's been my "attitude" all along.

Hardly.

Had the chips gone the other way we simply would have kept trying.

I doubt it...The whining and the cries of "FOUL" would have been
reverberating for decades.

Hardly.

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