On Thurs, Mar 3 2005 11:04 pm, "Dee Flint" (calmed down from a previous
hissy fit) jumped into a so-called conversation and shouted out:

"Alun L. Palmer" wrote in message
. ..
wrote in
oups.com:

[snip]

It's the classic case of a red herring diversion. Blame the code
test
for everyhting bad while the real problems are not addressed.

73 de Jim, N2EY

It depends what you mean. Will repealing the code test provide a
vast
increase in numbers? No. Will it provide some increase? Yes.

I'd say that's more like a maybe rather than a yes.

What? You don't KNOW? All PCTAs KNOW things EXACTLY!

:-)

Are there
thousands of hams that could pass the General or Extra theory
trapped
above 30 MHz? Yes.

There are no hams "trapped above 30Mhz.

Riiiiight, Mama Dee. Nobody is trapped. No-coders are NOBODIES.
:-)

Will there be a large increase in HF use? Yes.

That is also a maybe. If the code is dropped this year, many will buy
the
rigs and try it but may be sadly disappointed in the results since we
are in
the trough of the sunspot cycle and results are so often poor right
now.

Sorry, Dee, you can't be right unless you give the EXACT number.
"No one will believe you if you don't give us the exact data." :-)

Riiiight, Dee, the "only" purpose of HF is "to work DX with CW."
:-)

They may not stick with it until conditions improve since they won't
have
the skills to participate in the second most used mode of shortwave
communications.

Wow, all that struggle just to be "second best!" Such "incentive!"

Gots to "work DX on HF with CW." On "shortwave!"

BTW, the rest of the radio world uses the term "shortwave" to refer
to small wavelengths measured in centimeters. It's in all the trade
magazines. Oops, I forgot. Real hams don't read industry trades.
The only approved publications about radio come from the ARRL.

Work, struggle with all one's might to become "second best." :-)
Mediocre is the word. Or, to keep the "CW" bandplan open as an
olde-tymer's playground/sandbox to keep their righteousnesses
happy. "Real" radio operators do "CW." All important, vital,
necessities, righteous. Get and keep federal LAW to TEST all
hobbyists operating below 30 MHz or the sky will fall!