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July 18th 04, 04:25 AM
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In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes: "William" wrote in message . com... PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message ... The important question is, who is the best judge of what the requirements should be? The newcomer or the experienced ham? 73 de Jim, N2EY Jim, many experienced amateurs have spoken agains the continued use of the Morse Code as a filter. You ignore them, or say they must be wrong. Luckily, hams don't decide, necomer or otherwise. The FCC does, and they see merit in the reasonable arguments put forth by those experienced hams. Best of Luck Please post the URLs of the surveys to back up your claim. How "many?" Is it a majority or is it just a vocal minority? Official numbers with lots of statistical qualifications? Or the "official" views of the ARRL (which is decidedly biased in favor of morsemanship for amateurs)? [readers WILL know what your answer will be] So far the FCC has done nothing with the innumerable petitions nor have the acted unilaterally to implement the change now allowed by the international treaty. At this point it is premature to say that the FCC sees merit in either side of the question. The number of petitions for consideration are 18. Rather a large number for such a small radio service. On top of that, the FCC is going to do an R&O which is largely "rules housekeeping" and has nothing to do with code testing. Your point - and it must be obvious to most readers - is that you are miffed as well as adamant about keeping the code test. Any intelligent person doesn't consider it a filter. Any "intelligent person" would consider your statement as utter NONSENSE! :-) Mama Dee, you are sounding way too officious and arrogant and elitist when saying that "intelligent people don't consider it a filter." Intelligent people can see the whole of the radio environment and conclude that the morse code test is just an old anachronism. It is simply a useful element of ham radio that should be maintained. Repeated NONSENSE. Some consider it "important" solely because They were able to master it...and want to use that to keep "their territory" as private as possible for "their own kind." Some of the people against using it as a filter are for keeping it as a part of the ham's required knowledge. Please post the URLs of the surveys to back up your claim. How "many?" Is it a majority or is it just a vocal minority? Are there any Stanford-Binet IQ scores included with those surveys? After all, ONLY "intelligent people" will want to keep the code! :-) |
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