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December 30th 04, 06:12 AM

In article , (A
Raging Avenging Angle) writes:

Subject: No anticipated changes in Morse Requirement for a while
From: (Len Over 21)
Date: 12/29/2004 12:15 AM Central Standard Time
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In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

So...now you've got this "instant gratification" thing going again?

Yes sir! Just like you have your thing going again.

My "thing" has been "going" all the while...no problems.

So has this ridiculous "necessity" of amateur radio to pass a morse
test in order to "qualify" for HF privileges for over a half century.

A mere 51 years I did not even have to pass any special test to
operate an HF transmitter outputting more power than any ham
is supposed to have (in 1953 that was 15 KW from the old Press
Wireless transmitters, went to 40 KW with the Collins rigs of
1955). No morse test needed. Didn't even have the MOS for
Fixed Station Transmitters, was MOS for microwave radio relay.

As usual, we are treated to yet another round of "Back in the
Fifites..."

Tsk. Poor frustrated Avenging Angle.

I was transmitting RF on HF, VHF, UHF, and microwaves in the
1950s. Again in the 1960s, then in the 1970s (including LF and
VLF), and in the 1980s and 1990s. Earlier this year (which
includes the 2000s) I was talking on HF from a sailboat.

I've done it in the military, in civilian life, for the U.S. government
and for private business (a little of which includes my partner-
ship in a private business), and with local utilities...not to mention
on land, in the air, and on water.

Not a single second of "operating" time...Just another Uncle Sam Green
radio mechanic.

"Logs" are only required by lumber companies.

The only non-amateur "logging" required is in radio broadcasting (which
I've been doing for WREX-TV, WMCW, WRRR) and (formerly) for
certain communications conducted by corporations (RCA EAS Division).
Those have been duly noted on the back of my First Class Radio-
Telephone (Commercial) Radio Operator License and signed off by
the Chief Engineers or responsible Staff Engineer...and witnessed by
an FCC Field Office when the License was up for renewal.

But, in 2004, U.S. radio amateurs MUST still pass a morse test
to "qualify" for operating an amateur radio transmitter on HF. No
other radio service (other than certain Maritime radio services)
require morsemanship testing.

Because Amateur Radio is NOT Military, Commercial, Maritime, Public
Service or Broadcast. It's Amateur Radio. It's Basis and Purpose are
completely different than any otehr radio service.

Finally the Avenging Angle has had a glimpse of reality!

[I've never been engaged in an "otehr" radio service, can't find it
in Title 47 C.F.R.]

Amateur radio is basically a HOBBY activity, engaged in for
personal pleasure and not for pecuniary compensation. As such it
is NOT any sort of "life saving" or "emergency" radio service.
It, like most any other human activity, CAN be used in emergencies
but the Basis and Purpose as outlined in Part 97.1 Definitions
does NOT establish itself as either an "emergency service" nor as
some kind of vital radio communications activity needed by the
nation. Really.

Does my posting offend?

No, not me personally.

Liar.

ANYthing from a Radio Amateur offends The Licenseless One. He can't
stand being bested by anyone, ESPECIALLY "amateurs".

Tsk. A most angry (almost raging) Avenging Angle is frothing at
the mouth again, trying (but not succeding) in putting his imaginings
into a reality that won't accept such fantasy.

I AM "offended" by the self-righteous hams
who insist (and some demand) that the morse test MUST remain
as if it is some kind of importance to "the service." This is the new
millennium, not some olde-tyme raddio where the "operators" sit
around with eye shades and sleeve garters while keying their bugs
and sideswipers and thinking they are Very Important or something.

Ahhhhhh....but we ARE "Very Important". You just wish it were otherwise.

Sorry. Your "importance" is solely inside your own ego.

Then you could sleep at night knowing that we'd been knocked down to your
level!

Except for last night with its lightning and thunder rattling windows, I
sleep quite well. [southern California was undergoing a rainstorm,
complete with rare lightning discharges]

Tsk. You place yourself on an imaginary pedestal and proceed to
knock yourself down with extremely one-sided imaginary thoughts
plus a great deal of personal insults tossed at all those who do not
believe as you do.

Amateur radio is a HOBBY activity. Always was, and probably always
will be since the rest of the world can jolly well get on with life
without
all those amateur hobbyists to Save The Planet from whatever.

Angry, angry, angry little man.

Nope. You are lost in your own imagings again.

Amounted to nothing important in
life...is nearing the end of his and regrets having not been celebrated as
the Radio Hero he perceives himself to be.

Tsk. More imaginings again.

"Radio Hero?!?" Never implied that. :-)

I'm just another human male who has accumulated a fairly large
experience in radio-electronics, spending an entire working career
in the electronics industry as well as enjoying a hobby of
electronics for a period longer than having to work at it for a living.
An ordinary human male lucky enough to be married to my
high school sweetheart and with a comfortable (though not great)
income, no longer having to get up and go to work 6 days a week
for any of that. No mortgage, no outstanding liens on property.

If that morse test is so absolutely "needed," then the definition of the
ARS should be changed in Part 97 to "Archaic Radiotelegraphy
Service" for the USA.

The only thing "archaic" here, Lennie, is YOU and your petty, whining,
demaning rants.

Tsk, tsk. Wipe your chin. The froth is running down it...

You were a whining little putz all your life. You're a whining little
putz now. And when you're FINALLY dead and gone, you'll not be long
remembered because you were a whining little putz.

Now now, don't try any of that "USMC Charm School" dill instructor
stuff. :-) This is reality, not some boot camp for recruits. Try to
understand that.

Correspondents in this newsgroup have differing opinions. Like it
or not, opinions (even your own) are just opinions, not Absolute
Truth. That you don't like any opinions that disagree with yours is
a very demonstrated fact in here...but that doesn't mean you can
always conduct yourself as some kind of Keeper of the Covenant
with an imaginary amateur god. Talking nasty (using words of
Yiddish, not your language goyim) is not socially respectable.

The subject of this thread is the morse code test presently required
for any amateur radio license class having below-30-MHz privileges.
The retention or elimination of the morse code test will NOT affect
any of the operating privileges of current licensees. It may affect the
egos of those olde-tyme hammes but that is their problem. The
morse code test existance IS an archaic regulation which has
turned away many hobbyists in the past. There is NO viable "need"
to keep that morse code test in the regulations. That is reality.

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