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September 2nd 04, 08:16 PM
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Subject: ARRL to propose subband-by-bandwidth regulation
From: (Len Over 21) Date: 9/2/2004 1:29 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: In article , (William) writes: You've got a good point. He deserves no fond farewells. But I'd buy the card, sign it, put postage on it, and maybe even include a box of fine chocolates just to get rid of that crazy *******. But would he stay away? The great unknown. This newsgroup essentially ceased to become any sort of discussion forum quite some while ago. Certain individuals asserted (and inserted) themselves as "leaders" and "knew what was good for everything" (defining that whatever They did was "good" and what They didn't like was "bad"). Perhaps that was due to a determined effort by a certain unlicensed individual to berate, antagonize, humiliate and otherwise manipulate the newsgroup in a further effort to position himself a Lord, King and God or All Radio Knowledge. This newsgroup was created some years back to catch the "discussions" on the Morse Code Test Issue, transferring it from rec.radio.amateur.miscellaneous. And of course any attempt to let IT evolve to anything ELSE is criminal. Oh...wait...LENNIE is the one accusing AMATEURS of not evolving with changes in technology and practice...but it's OK for HIM to insist that RRAP not be used for any other purpsoe save one.... Well..ain't THAT a switch...?!?! (Not really...Lennie's as two-faced as anyone can be...) Personal denigrations of those against retaining the code test were numerous and rather ripe with invective and insulting inuendo from those that championed the mighty morse modes. As were personal denigrations uttered by those who champion the removal of Morse Code testing. That was long ago when the mighty morse ruled the rank, status, privelege "qualifications" of amateurs in that incredible multi-tiered license structure of pre-restructuring circa 1997. Whooooops. There goes Lennie's "I Hate Amateur Radio Rank, Status and Priviledge Because It Diminishes My Commercial Rank, Status and Priviledge" rant. No less than six classes of license for a hobby activity...greater than the number of classes for commercial radio operator licenses. And now there's only three. Three more than YOU have, Lennie. Those that had Made It Through all the tests and "qualifications" entrenched themselves behind the "safety" of their mental barricades and mighty accomplishments (greater than anyone could possibly be in non-amateur radio). They claimed "turf" and bragging rights and "ownership" of What All Good Hams Must Do. Of course YOU would have us all spending 14 years in night school with and a GROL to BE "qualified". Not necessary. Just $10 and an hour ata a VE session. Those "masters" were aided by the self-promoting prose of the ARRL (which had yet to get as many as a quarter of all U.S. hams in membership). ARRL stressed morse as the epitome of ham-ness as it had ever since Hiram had been elected president- for-life. It was a continuation of the equation ham = morseman, the unstated but constantly implied ultimate goal that "should" be a part of amateur life. The only "prose" in Amateur Radio passed away a while back. was great on a keyer, even in his late years. In other words, the ARRL continued on the ultra-conservative path of keeping the past as present...and naturally promoting themselves as "leadership" for all "right-thinking hams" who should join ARRL. FCC records on such things prove otherwise, but of course Lennie tends to ignore things archived in federal documents. That's just a natural survival tactic of any fraternal order...to survive they need membership and attraction to the league "product" is to tell others what those others what the league leadership thinks they want newcomers to hear. ARRL went a bit too far. If this were true, the ARRL could have taken the "sure-bet" path years ago and pandered to the lowest common denominator. Other Amateur Radio organizations and periodicals have tried that and suffered for it. "Ham Radio", "Ham Radio Horizons", "73", et al. League membership is around 170K. Thier next closer competitor is "CQ" magazine, known for it's more "center of the road" positionings, yet they only report a TOTAL printing of about 44K, not even a third of the League's membership (of which we assume a magazine "subscription" for each) The no-code-test Technician license class never really stopped growing since 1991. That class has become the Majority of all U.S. amateur licensees...regardless of the rationalizations of the pro- coders trying to play numbers games after the Restructuring. The "rationalizations" are bilateral, Your Putziness. You are evidence of that. Pro-coders just couldn't believe the reality. "No-code" went against their religious concepts, personified by the equation ham=morseman! All "real" hams knew, loved, had tested for "code" so that was a universal, divine thing they seemed to think. An amazing aberration of theirs, clinging to past standards and practices as if to life itself. Nothing about Amateur Radio has remaind unchanged, Lennie, except for the term "Amateur Radio" or "Ham". The rest has been an almost 90 year history of fluidity. Meanwhile, the rest of the radio world, every other radio service, either never adopted any morse modes or just quit using morse for communications. This forum is about AMATUER RADIO...not the LEMMING Radio service. Factors exist in the AMATEUR RADIO service that lend itself to the continued testing for and implementation of Morse Code. The Maritime radio community itself voted in the new GMDSS to replace the old, dramatic, fabled-in-story 500 KHz morse distress frequency. When that was done there was no real need for morsemanship anywhere...except in the religious beliefs of the mighty macho morsemen, themselves angry and distressed that their Nobel-grade accomplishments were not revered. Some became outraged and vented on all "no-coders" in barrages of invective. Pro-coders relieved themselves in public in disregard of all, blessed by Those Of Their Kind. Of course pointing out that the retention of Morse Code testing was mandated by international treaty, of which the United States was signatory. That law has been changed and the US Government has it's regulatory wheels churning to determine how to accomodate that. Again, yet another fact you refuse to acknowledge. The tombstone of morse code testing was put in place at WRC-03 when most of S25 was revised. Internationally. R.I.P. code testing. When will be see "RIP Lennie Anderson"...?!?! That would do more to promote the appeal of ANY radio participation. Except, like some undead ghoul of the air, the pro-coder zombies continue to haunt, to try to keep alive that equally-dead equation ham=morseman. They vow revenge and retribution for themselves not understanding that their anger is about their own False Beliefs. They continue to take out that anger, relieving themselves by denigrations of all who are "no-code." We are awash in their "relief" to this day. No relief tube in sight. You're the one trying to use the relief tube Lennie...in the same way 1930's fighter pilots used to communicate between the cockpits. Amateur radio is essentially a hobby, a pleasureable activity involving radio communications arts done for personal enjoyment. Wondering where you got that from, Lennie, in as much as you are not a part of it. Licensing and regulations thereof are a result of the physics of all radio, to keep order in what would (and was) an EM chaos. Licensing regulations, like all laws, were never fixed, immuteable, imposed by a divinity. Regulations must remain open to change just like all laws must remain open for change. Pro-coders are resistant to change. They want to fight to the death for their "principles" (false religious beliefs) of having all desiring to be involved in a radio hobby to be licensed like the pro-coders were licensed. No less. They were "champions" of their day and want to keep their self-perceived crowns. They are mighty...hear them roar! You can hear them "roar" on the bottom ends of the more popular HF bands. Will that stop any pro-coder from relieving themselves in public? I doubt it. Their code keys will have to be pried from cold, dead fingers. As will be your keyboard, no doubt. Will that stop any olde-tyme hamme from relieving themselves in public? I doubt that, too. They have proclaimed Themselves as "masters," a kind of royalty that will never, ever abdicate their thrones. They Know What Is Good For All...Believe in what They Believe. They are the Elite. Their blood is blue...cyanotic. I just KNOW you can provide SOME reference to where this proclamation was made. Independence of thought is a no-no, unthinkable. Only on 10048 Lanark, Sun valley, CA...and in most Islamic nations. There is only One Belief. That of a minority within another minority of hobbyists headquartered in a small New England town. They lead. All other hobbyists must follow. They say so. Only They Know What Is Good For All. So be it. Regardless of the "minority within a minority", it will always be a MAJORITY compared to the Leonard H. Anderson's licensed AND experienced in the Amateur Radio Service. And we are still waiting for Lennie to provide the NG some links to the posts where the alleged "proclaimations" have been made. (Hint: They don't exist...except in the flailing, failing mind of a very lonely, very angry old man in Sun Valley, CA.......) Steve, K4YZ |
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