From: "Dee Flint" on Sat, Mar 12 2005 8:32 am

"K4YZ" wrote in message
roups.com...

wrote:

btw, when cb required a license, there was an age requirement.
I think it was 18, but it could have been 15 - I'm not 100% sure
because I was never involved in cb. Yet that age requirement didn't
help cb's problems...

It was because 18 is the "age of majority" for most legal
purposes. A minor couldn't be held liable.

Why it matters for CB and not for Amateur Radio is beyond me.

I wonder if that is perhaps because ham radio goes back to a time when

people were believed to be responsible at a younger age even though
they may
or may not have been able to sign contracts, etc. That was a time
when
completing the 8th grade was still considered sufficient for most
people and
they often then went to full time work rather than going on to more
schooling. They were considered adults at least functionally if not
legally. Even quite young children sometimes worked instead of going
to
school.

Tsk. "Ham" radio existed prior to 1920 and the
ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. [hint: women got the right to vote]

The voting age of U.S. citizens was lowered to 18
in 1971 with ratification of the 26th Amendment.

On the other hand, CB was set up at a time when people were expected
to stay
in school through high school and people's perceptions changed that
teenagers were still children rather than people in the early stages
of
becoming adults.

"CB" (as you morseaholics know it only on the 11
meter band) was created in 1958.

So, teenagers are NOT expected to go to school
nowadays?!?!?

Of course this is all just speculation but it's fun to think about.

Tsk. Everyone is losing it while having a gay
old time personally attacking one individual in
here. :-)

Perhaps Len wants amateur radio to be more like cb...

Perhaps because Len epitomizes CBers...?!?!

It's impossible to tell from his postings.

Really? ALL because I advocate an elimination of
the morse code test for an amateur radio license?

"Incroyable!" shouted the illegal 6 meter Frenchman.

It would appear not that he wants it like CB but that he hates amateur
radio and amateur radio
operators.

Tsk. Are you feeling abused? Not loved because
you do morse code and find out few others care?

Perk yourself up, buy some clothes. I heard there
are some neat things on Ebay. Like long-sleeved
tees with neat little morse code phrases on them.
Better hurry and get your bid in...lots of beefy
morsemen are clamoring for that tee, paying good
bucks to look sexy. :-)

Or, you can form your own HATE group, targeting
evil, wicked, mean and nasty CB! Shout to the
world that they are the Antichrist of Radio,
illegal lawbreakers all who are the spawn of
satan! Write your congresscritter today!

So...ALL who do not like morse code ALL HATE
amateur radio operators? Of course you think so.
You are a morseman (in the gender neutral case,
of course...with morse no one can hear your
orgasmic screams of delight when you get "good
copy").

Join FISTS. Let your love begin! :-)