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Dan/W4NTI "Len Over 21" wrote in message ... In article . net, "Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com writes: Removing the test would be the ultimate filter. - Mike KB3EIA - Because we can do that right now Mike. I don't consider it being elitist to want to continue with a known effective mode. Those that want to get rid of it are world class fools. The REST OF THE RADIO WORLD GOT RID OF TELEGRAPHY. Are all those other radio services "fools" that they got rid of radiotelegraphy? I guess you think so. shrug How's your therapy coming along? LHA / WMD |
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"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message link.net...
"Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... If Pro CW Testing Amateurs a Feet firmly planted in the past folks and elitist snobs...... Why wouldn't they WANT the Morse code testing eliminated so that they could get on the air and only associate with like minded individuals? Removing the test would be the ultimate filter. - Mike KB3EIA - Because we can do that right now Mike. I don't consider it being elitist to want to continue with a known effective mode. Those that want to get rid of it are world class fools. Dan/W4NTI DAN, Dan, dan, it is the -EXAM- that we are getting rid of. If we got rid of the psk practical exam, would you think we are trying to get rid of the mode? |
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"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message hlink.net...
"Bert Craig" wrote in message et... "Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... If Pro CW Testing Amateurs a Feet firmly planted in the past folks and elitist snobs...... Why wouldn't they WANT the Morse code testing eliminated so that they could get on the air and only associate with like minded individuals? Removing the test would be the ultimate filter. - Mike KB3EIA - That'll likely happen, Mike. If and when Element 1 is retained solely for the Extra, I suspect the Extra CW sub-bands will become a pretty crowded place. Kinda silly as those who won't (Not can't.) learn CW won't be on any CW sub-bands. 73 de Bert WA2SI I've been a Extra for 30 years now. I hardly ever operate in the exclusive subbands, either phone or cw. But here lately I have been. I have no problem with leaving 50 khz per band for CW. We don't have that now! On HF/MF, there are *no* CW-only subbands. I think such subbands are a very good idea. Something like this: CW-only subbands: 160 meters: 1800-1850 kHz 80 meters: 3500-3575 kHz 40 meters: 7000-7050 kHz 30 meters: 10100-10120 kHz 20 meters: 14000-14075 kHz 17 meters: 18068-18088 kHz 15 meters: 21000-21075 kHz 12 meters: 24890-24910 kHz 10 meters: 28000-28100 kHz Bottom 25 kHz of 80/40/20/15 reserved for Extras. Rest is available to all other classes of license. CW would still be legal outside these subbands but observance of the subbands would be encouraged as good operating practice. Why not? You'd think that such a move would be offered by at least some of the nocodetest folks... 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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N2EY wrote:
"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message hlink.net... "Bert Craig" wrote in message .net... "Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... If Pro CW Testing Amateurs a Feet firmly planted in the past folks and elitist snobs...... Why wouldn't they WANT the Morse code testing eliminated so that they could get on the air and only associate with like minded individuals? Removing the test would be the ultimate filter. - Mike KB3EIA - That'll likely happen, Mike. If and when Element 1 is retained solely for the Extra, I suspect the Extra CW sub-bands will become a pretty crowded place. Kinda silly as those who won't (Not can't.) learn CW won't be on any CW sub-bands. 73 de Bert WA2SI I've been a Extra for 30 years now. I hardly ever operate in the exclusive subbands, either phone or cw. But here lately I have been. I have no problem with leaving 50 khz per band for CW. We don't have that now! On HF/MF, there are *no* CW-only subbands. I think such subbands are a very good idea. Something like this: CW-only subbands: 160 meters: 1800-1850 kHz 80 meters: 3500-3575 kHz 40 meters: 7000-7050 kHz 30 meters: 10100-10120 kHz 20 meters: 14000-14075 kHz 17 meters: 18068-18088 kHz 15 meters: 21000-21075 kHz 12 meters: 24890-24910 kHz 10 meters: 28000-28100 kHz Bottom 25 kHz of 80/40/20/15 reserved for Extras. Rest is available to all other classes of license. CW would still be legal outside these subbands but observance of the subbands would be encouraged as good operating practice. Why not? You'd think that such a move would be offered by at least some of the nocodetest folks... Sorry Jim, they are busy with trying to lower the test requirements right now. After all the Technicians are freebied up to General, they'll turn their attentions to those pesky and annoying gentleman's agreements for CW portions. I'll bet you a pepperoni and cheese pizza that their bandplans will look quite different than yours. Theirs will be much simpler! The rationale will be that it is SO much trouble for people to keep within bandplans that it is a big headache for hams to keep track of where they are supposed to be. And why do those CW people get half our bands anyhow? The most amusing part will be when Carl and Bill show up with their spin on how it *isn't* a spectrum grab. But you know, I suspect that in the brave new world of post-restructuring ARS, that the new hams will simply do squatters rights on the bandplan. It's only an agreement, so what can we do if they decide to work there? I wonder when the first CW segment SSB contest will be held? - Mike KB3EIA - |
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Mike Coslo wrote in :
N2EY wrote: "Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message hlink.net... "Bert Craig" wrote in message v.net... "Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... If Pro CW Testing Amateurs a Feet firmly planted in the past folks and elitist snobs...... Why wouldn't they WANT the Morse code testing eliminated so that they could get on the air and only associate with like minded individuals? Removing the test would be the ultimate filter. - Mike KB3EIA - That'll likely happen, Mike. If and when Element 1 is retained solely for the Extra, I suspect the Extra CW sub-bands will become a pretty crowded place. Kinda silly as those who won't (Not can't.) learn CW won't be on any CW sub-bands. 73 de Bert WA2SI I've been a Extra for 30 years now. I hardly ever operate in the exclusive subbands, either phone or cw. But here lately I have been. I have no problem with leaving 50 khz per band for CW. We don't have that now! On HF/MF, there are *no* CW-only subbands. I think such subbands are a very good idea. Something like this: CW-only subbands: 160 meters: 1800-1850 kHz 80 meters: 3500-3575 kHz 40 meters: 7000-7050 kHz 30 meters: 10100-10120 kHz 20 meters: 14000-14075 kHz 17 meters: 18068-18088 kHz 15 meters: 21000-21075 kHz 12 meters: 24890-24910 kHz 10 meters: 28000-28100 kHz Bottom 25 kHz of 80/40/20/15 reserved for Extras. Rest is available to all other classes of license. CW would still be legal outside these subbands but observance of the subbands would be encouraged as good operating practice. Why not? You'd think that such a move would be offered by at least some of the nocodetest folks... Sorry Jim, they are busy with trying to lower the test requirements right now. After all the Technicians are freebied up to General, they'll turn their attentions to those pesky and annoying gentleman's agreements for CW portions. I'll bet you a pepperoni and cheese pizza that their bandplans will look quite different than yours. Theirs will be much simpler! The rationale will be that it is SO much trouble for people to keep within bandplans that it is a big headache for hams to keep track of where they are supposed to be. And why do those CW people get half our bands anyhow? The most amusing part will be when Carl and Bill show up with their spin on how it *isn't* a spectrum grab. But you know, I suspect that in the brave new world of post-restructuring ARS, that the new hams will simply do squatters rights on the bandplan. It's only an agreement, so what can we do if they decide to work there? I wonder when the first CW segment SSB contest will be held? - Mike KB3EIA - I've never pretended I don't want more phone spectrum, but there again, I have no connection with NCI either. There are a couple of different issues here, and they are getting mixed up. As a phone operator, it annoys me that the FCC rules give me _smaller_ subbands than in the gentleman's agreement known as the IARU Region 2 (North & South America) bandplan (not the one drawn up by the Antiquated Radio Relay League, which of course is a subset of the FCC rules, as they couldn't very well suggest illegal operation). Repealing code testing will put more people on HF who don't do CW, although some of them will be into PSK31, etc., so there will be more pressure to do something about this. I actually agree that NCI is not the appropriate vehicle for that, unless the name were changed? I also agree that they said they would go away when they won, but I'm not them. From the CW perspective, no doubt the CW segments of any bandplan are less than the sum total of the FCC CW and data allocations, but the data guys have to have somewhere to go! Do you really need CW only segments to protect yourselves from them? (I don't know the answer, this is a genuine question, and I'm not a data person so I really have no axe to grind). If you do think that, and that may be a reasonable position to take, I only have one point of disagreement. Above 1842 is available to phone in the 160m bandplan, and no I'm not talking about the League, I mean the IARU bandplan again. Since 1810-1850 is the amateur exclusive part of the band, it just wouldn't be right for all of that to be reserved for CW (although you could have more CW somewhere else as far as I am concerned). 8 kHz is not too much to ask for as a DX window for phone, and at least the FCC doesn't prohibit it even of the League have failed to recognise it. If you ask the FCC to prohibit phone there, then you can be sure I will file a comment to the contrary. Alun, N3KIP |
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Mike Coslo wrote in message ...
If Pro CW Testing Amateurs a Feet firmly planted in the past folks and elitist snobs...... Why wouldn't they WANT the Morse code testing eliminated so that they could get on the air and only associate with like minded individuals? Removing the test would be the ultimate filter. The short answer is "because we're not 'elitist snobs' and our feet are not 'firmly planted in the past' The longer, more accurate answer is that it's not as simple as some folks would like you to think. For some, it really is "just about the code test". But for others, the real issue is something variously called 'standards' or 'achievements'. That's where the real disagreement is. And it comes out in a whole bunch of ways. For example, how often have you heard the buzzphrases "it's a hobby" or "it's just a hobby" or similar, given as an argument against some requirement or another? Think about what the person pushing those phrases really means. They're usually *not* saying "it's not a job". Instead, what they're really saying is "don't expect much" or even "don't expect anything". Look at how the *written* exams have changed over the years, despite claims that "it's just about the code test". Yet we have vocal support for free upgrades and further written test reductions. Did you see the article on "is training class efficient?" which detailed a one-day-to-Tech cram course? They boasted an 85% success rate - meaning that after just one day of class, 85% of their students passed the Tech test. This was done by rote memorization of the written exam question pool. Is this really what's best for the future of the ARS? Some folks think so! When you see arguments for "one class of license" ask "with what requirements?" - but don't hold your breath waiting for an answer. When you see people railing about "standards and requirements of the 1930s", ask what they propose as the "standards and requirements of the 2000s" - but again, don't hold your breath waiting for a detailed answer. Some folks don't think there should be *any* standards or requirements beyond a bare bones set of rules and regs from FCC. Of course we know what happens in a radio service where that is the norm. It isn't pretty. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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"William" wrote in message om... "Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message link.net... "Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... If Pro CW Testing Amateurs a Feet firmly planted in the past folks and elitist snobs...... Why wouldn't they WANT the Morse code testing eliminated so that they could get on the air and only associate with like minded individuals? Removing the test would be the ultimate filter. - Mike KB3EIA - Because we can do that right now Mike. I don't consider it being elitist to want to continue with a known effective mode. Those that want to get rid of it are world class fools. Dan/W4NTI DAN, Dan, dan, it is the -EXAM- that we are getting rid of. If we got rid of the psk practical exam, would you think we are trying to get rid of the mode? There is no psk practical exam. The ONLY PRACTICAL exam we have in ham radio is the CW TEST. Most of the rest is mainly BS memorization, that for the most part is not even relevant to real world ham radio. Dan/W4NTI |
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"N2EY" wrote in message m... "Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message hlink.net... "Bert Craig" wrote in message et... "Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... If Pro CW Testing Amateurs a Feet firmly planted in the past folks and elitist snobs...... Why wouldn't they WANT the Morse code testing eliminated so that they could get on the air and only associate with like minded individuals? Removing the test would be the ultimate filter. - Mike KB3EIA - That'll likely happen, Mike. If and when Element 1 is retained solely for the Extra, I suspect the Extra CW sub-bands will become a pretty crowded place. Kinda silly as those who won't (Not can't.) learn CW won't be on any CW sub-bands. 73 de Bert WA2SI I've been a Extra for 30 years now. I hardly ever operate in the exclusive subbands, either phone or cw. But here lately I have been. I have no problem with leaving 50 khz per band for CW. We don't have that now! On HF/MF, there are *no* CW-only subbands. I think such subbands are a very good idea. Something like this: CW-only subbands: 160 meters: 1800-1850 kHz 80 meters: 3500-3575 kHz 40 meters: 7000-7050 kHz 30 meters: 10100-10120 kHz 20 meters: 14000-14075 kHz 17 meters: 18068-18088 kHz 15 meters: 21000-21075 kHz 12 meters: 24890-24910 kHz 10 meters: 28000-28100 kHz Bottom 25 kHz of 80/40/20/15 reserved for Extras. Rest is available to all other classes of license. CW would still be legal outside these subbands but observance of the subbands would be encouraged as good operating practice. Why not? You'd think that such a move would be offered by at least some of the nocodetest folks... 73 de Jim, N2EY I like it. And of course not. Dan/W4NTI |
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