wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote:

snip

Jim, you gotta give tinyurl a try. Just go to http://www.tinyurl.com,
and copy and and paste the long URL in the field provided, and it
will make a tiny url for ya! Then put that in the message. All free


Let's try this again:


"Amateur Radio In the 21st Century" can be viewed he

http://gahleos.obarr.net/messages/0002.html

Or he

http://tinyurl.com/695p6

My detailed rebuttal in three parts can be viewed too.

Part 1 is he

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e?dmode=source

Or he

http://tinyurl.com/6385t


Part 2 is he

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...8?dmode=source

Or he

http://tinyurl.com/4uvd5



Part 3 is he

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...4?dmode=source

Or he

http://tinyurl.com/4kxah



See what these folks think is needed for the future of amateur
radio.

One of your points that may be hidden in all the text, yet is
critically important IMO, is the part noting that while removing the
Morse test completely for one license class, and reducing it to 5wpm for
the others, we have managed only a very modest increase in numbers (note
that this was an "at the time" thing.

As the future would pan out, we have lost numbers, and a lot of them
the Non-coded types.

As a ship that is almost stopped proves, turning the rudder does almost
nothing, or when the interest rate goes very low, adjusting it does
almost nothing, eliminating the 5WPM Morse code will have no positive
effect on the numbers of new hams, and the most likely effect will be
that with the lesser effort, more and more will get into the hobby with
only slight interest, and then drop out. That is not what we need.

Hey, do I get a prize for that freakin' long sentence?

- Mike KB3EIA -