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On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:11:17 -0700, kelly wrote:
SNIP Me I license about a dozen or so 10 - 15 year old kids a year as new hams. What do you do to promote the hobby? Perhaps you have not made an effort to promote the hobby to them, teach and mentor them. Do something make a contribution, make a difference. -- Korbin Dallas The name was changed to protect the guilty. |
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I was gonna say that!!! (but, you did say it better!)
But glad you clarified, certainly is close to my take on the whole thing--you think you might be the only one who has ever told them the truth--of how it all looks in others eyes? If not, you suppose the problem is that they didn't believe the first guy? grin Warmest regards, John wrote in message ups.com... From: "John Smith" on Tues 7 Jun 2005 13:13 Len: Naaa, a bunch of toothless old farts wrote that, don't be fooled... these are the same men who confuse a hobby license with a Phd... they take themselves much too seriously and expect other too... now, you can be a dern fool and pay attention to all that, or ignore it all and seek truth... "John Smith," ya gotta know da TERRITORY! This place be da BLOG of the Mighty Macho Morsemen, serving the nation through amateur radio! First of all, only one in here apparently is "toothless," that of the Cursing Tomb Sentinel who never shows any teeth in his mighty photo portraits and "action" candids. [he of the "seven hostile actions"] Then we have the NO-Serving (except through morsemanship which is their true representative of U.S. amateur radio) who make jolly good laffs and pointy fingers at those of us who have served our country in the military. There are the apparently brain-damaged who are confused and curse those of us who know the truth...because we have done things not described by the official voice of radio, ARRL. One of the greatest of the apparently brain-damaged was in firm conviction of the ARRL Handbook as being "a standard book on every [electronic] engineer's desk." He got very upset when asked to prove that statement. Being a "lecturer at the University of Hawaii" (instructor at a junior college attached the university) he was unfamiliar with engineering per se but was a champion of morsemanship and once heard a ship "scream" through CW. There have been many others, some no longer with us. They all have variations on the common dreams of wish-fulfillment and self-importance. They are a SERVICE TO THE NATION for taking up the hobby of amateur radio, "proving it" by pointing (heatedly) to the FCC's definition of "Amateur Radio Service." Unfortunately they overlook the simple fact that EVERY radio type and kind in Title 47 C.F.R. is called a Service ("service" in Title 47 is a regulatory term). They have their "academic certificates" in the form of FCC amateur radio license forms (suitable for framing) and thus are BETTER than PhDs. They are nearly all claiming they, as amateurs, are BETTER than professionals. Of course they are ...in their minds. Some have passed a morse code test at high rate and that is even GREATER than their "academic achievement" license certificates. They are RADIOTELEGRAPHERS! The nobelest achievement in their world. Never mind that actual jobs of radiotelegraphy are akin to chicken having teeth, they have FANGS of expertise and bite all who dare accost them in this newsgroup. They are CHAMPIONS, they are HEROES, they are a bit nuts with self-love, self-promotion, self- righteousness that doesn't stop. "The truth is out there" is more than a TV show catchphrase. It is reality of the rest of the radio world. Few of these mighty macho morsemen have the courage to find out...they await their revelations in the pages of QST where they are spoon-fed what a few in Newington think is what they ought to know. So, to coexist in this Morsemen's BLOG, one has to "agree" and kiss their figurative asses, take their unflogging cursing and denigrations. Morsemen RULE RADIO in this little BLOG. Morsemen must be fed a steady emotional diet of gratuitous (and unwarranted) praise for their mighty efforts and skills. THEY know all. Like already. Get the picture? :-) |
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Korbin Dallas wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:11:17 -0700, kelly wrote: SNIP Me I license about a dozen or so 10 - 15 year old kids a year as new hams. Outstanding. Where/how do you find all these kids? What do you do to promote the hobby? Perhaps you have not made an effort to promote the hobby to them, teach and mentor them. That's true although over the years I have managed to bring a few kids into the hobby when the opportunity presented itself. But I don't go out looking for candidate kids. Not everyone is cut out to recruit/teach kids anything on an ongoing basis and I'm one of those. Do something make a contribution, make a difference. Welp let's see here . . I recently led an effort which raised a bit over $2,000 for the ARRL Spectrum Defense Fund part of which was my check for a hundred bucks. Helping preserve the bands for the kids, etc. Does that count? -- Korbin Dallas The name was changed to protect the guilty. Hmmmm . . w3rv |
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From: "John Smith" on Tues 7 Jun 2005 21:18
I was gonna say that!!! (but, you did say it better!) Thank you...but it's only a summation of what has gone on in here for years, said by others as well as I. :-) But glad you clarified, certainly is close to my take on the whole thing--you think you might be the only one who has ever told them the truth--of how it all looks in others eyes? If not, you suppose the problem is that they didn't believe the first guy? grin Actually there were dozens in here since 1996 trying to point out the TRUTH, but the die-hard morsemen would have none of it, preferring their own wonderful fantasies. Most simply got tired of wasting their time trying to argue against those (sometimes irrational) "believers." One of the redoubtable fanstasizers was Jim Kehler, KH2D, on Guam. He went so far as to "found" the fake organization known as "No SSB International" to counter the established No Code International (NCI) organiztion. NSI had very good web page design but was hampered by their "leader," Kehler, possessed of a zealot's blunt axe of words. NSI no longer exists as any effective group. NCI continues. NCI leaders helped to bring about the revision of S25 for international amateur radio standards at WRC-03...along with the IARU... even though hampered by the resistance of ARRL at the time. Kehler had some kind of illness and moved to the contiguous USA a few years ago. He had a website of his own (may still have) and kept digging and digging at those code-tested he did not like...in rather not-nice terms such as "brain-dead old farts." :-) The international maritime world selected GMDSS as THE distress-and-safety automatic calling system a few years ago, abandoning the old, romantic stalwart 500 KHz distress frequency with its "CW" only capability. The USCG has stopped monitoring that 500 KHz frequency. Some in here (notably W0EX in Missouri, probably SK now) tried to tell all "it wouldn't work!" by repeatedly quoting some retired mariner (who was oblivious to the fact that the international maritime folks had already tested the system and found that it does work!). The FCC has added GMDSS commercial licensing class categories (a few years ago) in Title 47 C.F.R. and COLEMs do the testing for those (rather simple) written license tests. The ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) has abandoned "CW" necessity for long over-water flights and air carrier navigator-radio personnel were "downsized" (laid-off, given their pension monies, waved bye-bye). ICAO switched to voice on HF for such tasks. Maritimers on the shipping lanes now use SSB voice and various TORs (Teleprinter Over Radio) on HF for long-distance communications. More expeditious for them, less error-prone than "CW." River and harbor communications switched to VHF voice decades ago for water-borne radio communications. Outside of some long-ago-installed automatic station identifiers using preset ID beepers, the only users of "CW" in the USA are the amateur radiotelegraphers. Members of the ARS (Archaic Radiotelegraphy Society) do some remarkable rationalization on "why" all MUST test for morsemanship to gain HF privileges: "It is the SECOND-most popular mode;" "it is needed so all can communicate with third-world hams;" "it is a 'traditional' and 'basic' mode;" "they need to know it so that all can communicate during extreme emergencies (perhaps when space aliens invade the earth)." The old, tired, trite "CW gets through when nothing else will" still surfaces even though first coined in the 1930s. Put into terms of reality, the morsemen had to test for it and therefore all newcomers have to do it (the "jump through the hoops" hazing syndrome)...nya, nya. :-) A sub-group of the mighty macho morsemen are the ex-service- members (military service that is) who demand a militaristic structure of defined rank-status-privilege with the "best" privileges naturally bestowed on those with the highest rank. [they self-define themselves as "deserving" of it] All of the military mighty macho morsemen are anal to a point of near-insanity on strict, unbending legalities with implied capital-offense punishment to be immediately applied to the poor souls who look for change in regulations. They "believe" all the usual political propaganda statements to be (almost) words of God and gleefully pin on their "deserved" medals for engaging in a hobby activity that requires federal regulation (due to the nature of EM physics). All that fuss and furor over a HOBBY activity! None may say nay to the divine-right of ham rule by the mighty macho morsemen! :-) |
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Yes.
Well, you cannot disguise the fact that the over 60 crowd just don't have the energy or enthusiasm as the teenage to 30 crowd--or the fact that these younger people are actively engaged in the research, development and production phases of electronics. Why they may effectively hang on limiting the hobby--this cannot not go on indefinitely... And, while it is true only those with a wet diaper can truly appreciate change--change is in the wind... the next decade should provide a dip in number of licenses which has never been seen before... this is only the beginning... Warmest regards, John wrote in message ups.com... From: "John Smith" on Tues 7 Jun 2005 21:18 I was gonna say that!!! (but, you did say it better!) Thank you...but it's only a summation of what has gone on in here for years, said by others as well as I. :-) But glad you clarified, certainly is close to my take on the whole thing--you think you might be the only one who has ever told them the truth--of how it all looks in others eyes? If not, you suppose the problem is that they didn't believe the first guy? grin Actually there were dozens in here since 1996 trying to point out the TRUTH, but the die-hard morsemen would have none of it, preferring their own wonderful fantasies. Most simply got tired of wasting their time trying to argue against those (sometimes irrational) "believers." One of the redoubtable fanstasizers was Jim Kehler, KH2D, on Guam. He went so far as to "found" the fake organization known as "No SSB International" to counter the established No Code International (NCI) organiztion. NSI had very good web page design but was hampered by their "leader," Kehler, possessed of a zealot's blunt axe of words. NSI no longer exists as any effective group. NCI continues. NCI leaders helped to bring about the revision of S25 for international amateur radio standards at WRC-03...along with the IARU... even though hampered by the resistance of ARRL at the time. Kehler had some kind of illness and moved to the contiguous USA a few years ago. He had a website of his own (may still have) and kept digging and digging at those code-tested he did not like...in rather not-nice terms such as "brain-dead old farts." :-) The international maritime world selected GMDSS as THE distress-and-safety automatic calling system a few years ago, abandoning the old, romantic stalwart 500 KHz distress frequency with its "CW" only capability. The USCG has stopped monitoring that 500 KHz frequency. Some in here (notably W0EX in Missouri, probably SK now) tried to tell all "it wouldn't work!" by repeatedly quoting some retired mariner (who was oblivious to the fact that the international maritime folks had already tested the system and found that it does work!). The FCC has added GMDSS commercial licensing class categories (a few years ago) in Title 47 C.F.R. and COLEMs do the testing for those (rather simple) written license tests. The ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) has abandoned "CW" necessity for long over-water flights and air carrier navigator-radio personnel were "downsized" (laid-off, given their pension monies, waved bye-bye). ICAO switched to voice on HF for such tasks. Maritimers on the shipping lanes now use SSB voice and various TORs (Teleprinter Over Radio) on HF for long-distance communications. More expeditious for them, less error-prone than "CW." River and harbor communications switched to VHF voice decades ago for water-borne radio communications. Outside of some long-ago-installed automatic station identifiers using preset ID beepers, the only users of "CW" in the USA are the amateur radiotelegraphers. Members of the ARS (Archaic Radiotelegraphy Society) do some remarkable rationalization on "why" all MUST test for morsemanship to gain HF privileges: "It is the SECOND-most popular mode;" "it is needed so all can communicate with third-world hams;" "it is a 'traditional' and 'basic' mode;" "they need to know it so that all can communicate during extreme emergencies (perhaps when space aliens invade the earth)." The old, tired, trite "CW gets through when nothing else will" still surfaces even though first coined in the 1930s. Put into terms of reality, the morsemen had to test for it and therefore all newcomers have to do it (the "jump through the hoops" hazing syndrome)...nya, nya. :-) A sub-group of the mighty macho morsemen are the ex-service- members (military service that is) who demand a militaristic structure of defined rank-status-privilege with the "best" privileges naturally bestowed on those with the highest rank. [they self-define themselves as "deserving" of it] All of the military mighty macho morsemen are anal to a point of near-insanity on strict, unbending legalities with implied capital-offense punishment to be immediately applied to the poor souls who look for change in regulations. They "believe" all the usual political propaganda statements to be (almost) words of God and gleefully pin on their "deserved" medals for engaging in a hobby activity that requires federal regulation (due to the nature of EM physics). All that fuss and furor over a HOBBY activity! None may say nay to the divine-right of ham rule by the mighty macho morsemen! :-) |
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Len:
A direct quote from Jim Haynie, "The ARRL president asserted that many Amateur Extra class licensees couldn't pass today's Element 4 examination if they had to..." Complete article at: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/05/22/1/?nc=1 Warmest regards, John wrote in message ups.com... From: "John Smith" on Tues 7 Jun 2005 21:18 I was gonna say that!!! (but, you did say it better!) Thank you...but it's only a summation of what has gone on in here for years, said by others as well as I. :-) But glad you clarified, certainly is close to my take on the whole thing--you think you might be the only one who has ever told them the truth--of how it all looks in others eyes? If not, you suppose the problem is that they didn't believe the first guy? grin Actually there were dozens in here since 1996 trying to point out the TRUTH, but the die-hard morsemen would have none of it, preferring their own wonderful fantasies. Most simply got tired of wasting their time trying to argue against those (sometimes irrational) "believers." One of the redoubtable fanstasizers was Jim Kehler, KH2D, on Guam. He went so far as to "found" the fake organization known as "No SSB International" to counter the established No Code International (NCI) organiztion. NSI had very good web page design but was hampered by their "leader," Kehler, possessed of a zealot's blunt axe of words. NSI no longer exists as any effective group. NCI continues. NCI leaders helped to bring about the revision of S25 for international amateur radio standards at WRC-03...along with the IARU... even though hampered by the resistance of ARRL at the time. Kehler had some kind of illness and moved to the contiguous USA a few years ago. He had a website of his own (may still have) and kept digging and digging at those code-tested he did not like...in rather not-nice terms such as "brain-dead old farts." :-) The international maritime world selected GMDSS as THE distress-and-safety automatic calling system a few years ago, abandoning the old, romantic stalwart 500 KHz distress frequency with its "CW" only capability. The USCG has stopped monitoring that 500 KHz frequency. Some in here (notably W0EX in Missouri, probably SK now) tried to tell all "it wouldn't work!" by repeatedly quoting some retired mariner (who was oblivious to the fact that the international maritime folks had already tested the system and found that it does work!). The FCC has added GMDSS commercial licensing class categories (a few years ago) in Title 47 C.F.R. and COLEMs do the testing for those (rather simple) written license tests. The ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) has abandoned "CW" necessity for long over-water flights and air carrier navigator-radio personnel were "downsized" (laid-off, given their pension monies, waved bye-bye). ICAO switched to voice on HF for such tasks. Maritimers on the shipping lanes now use SSB voice and various TORs (Teleprinter Over Radio) on HF for long-distance communications. More expeditious for them, less error-prone than "CW." River and harbor communications switched to VHF voice decades ago for water-borne radio communications. Outside of some long-ago-installed automatic station identifiers using preset ID beepers, the only users of "CW" in the USA are the amateur radiotelegraphers. Members of the ARS (Archaic Radiotelegraphy Society) do some remarkable rationalization on "why" all MUST test for morsemanship to gain HF privileges: "It is the SECOND-most popular mode;" "it is needed so all can communicate with third-world hams;" "it is a 'traditional' and 'basic' mode;" "they need to know it so that all can communicate during extreme emergencies (perhaps when space aliens invade the earth)." The old, tired, trite "CW gets through when nothing else will" still surfaces even though first coined in the 1930s. Put into terms of reality, the morsemen had to test for it and therefore all newcomers have to do it (the "jump through the hoops" hazing syndrome)...nya, nya. :-) A sub-group of the mighty macho morsemen are the ex-service- members (military service that is) who demand a militaristic structure of defined rank-status-privilege with the "best" privileges naturally bestowed on those with the highest rank. [they self-define themselves as "deserving" of it] All of the military mighty macho morsemen are anal to a point of near-insanity on strict, unbending legalities with implied capital-offense punishment to be immediately applied to the poor souls who look for change in regulations. They "believe" all the usual political propaganda statements to be (almost) words of God and gleefully pin on their "deserved" medals for engaging in a hobby activity that requires federal regulation (due to the nature of EM physics). All that fuss and furor over a HOBBY activity! None may say nay to the divine-right of ham rule by the mighty macho morsemen! :-) |
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John Smith wrote: Yes. Well, you cannot disguise the fact that the over 60 crowd just don't have the energy or enthusiasm as the teenage to 30 crowd--or the fact that these younger people are actively engaged in the research, development and production phases of electronics. Why they may effectively hang on limiting the hobby--this cannot not go on indefinitely... John, there is hope. I took a look at the actuarial tables shortly after joining this newsgripe, and it look like they are working in our favor. We can help it work by not turning into the very type of amateur that the tables are currently removing from hamdom. And, while it is true only those with a wet diaper can truly appreciate change--change is in the wind... the next decade should provide a dip in number of licenses which has never been seen before... this is only the beginning... Warmest regards, John Progress! |
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From: John Smith on Jun 8, 5:35 pm
Yes. Well, you cannot disguise the fact that the over 60 crowd just don't have the energy or enthusiasm as the teenage to 30 crowd--or the fact that these younger people are actively engaged in the research, development and production phases of electronics. Why they may effectively hang on limiting the hobby--this cannot not go on indefinitely... And, while it is true only those with a wet diaper can truly appreciate change--change is in the wind... the next decade should provide a dip in number of licenses which has never been seen before... this is only the beginning... The mighty macho morsemen cannot conceive of that. They are immortal. They RULE. [they've said as much...] However, "energy and enthusiasm" is a function of both individual genes and mental outlook. "Enthusiasm" in half-century-old state- of-the-art techiques and practices should be consigned to niche nostalgia places, not kept as federal regulations. Many of the stratification crowd seem to hang onto their "enthusiasm" of their young days as if it were a lifeline to some imagined fountain of youth promising that they will remain younger than springtime by holding to old paradigms. [Rodgers and Hammerstein could do a great musical opera on that if Rodgers wasn't a silent (piano) key and Oscar wasn't a silent pen...but it wouldn't play in Newington] [well, maybe a version of "Carousel" since these olde-fahrts keep going around and around and around...] My own viewpoint is different. By virtue of being born when I was, my lifetime has seen the comming of the solid-state era and the definite decay of vacuum tube technology...that bringing a virtual explosion of different applications, new and exciting SOCs (Systems On a Chip)...plus a whole new set of passive and semi-active components and ways to hold them all together. Technology-wise that is truly WONDERFUL and MARVELOUS. We all have the capability of high-speed data and imagery communications internationally, 24/7, no worries about the condition of the ionosphere...all for less than $2000 in today's dollars to get a "mainframe" computer on a desk and a year's subscription to an ISP. Buy-sell-trade, do personal banking, keep family in touch at all times etc., etc., etc. My personal enthusiasm on the technology just grows and grows from keeping in touch with the new developments and seeing the products (some delivered to my door after electronic ordering). I'm not going to see the end of even if the mortal world sees my end. That's the way of humans being. Others, the stratification crowd, the staunch defenders of the status quo, demand a HALT to progress, NO CHANGE. Keep all nice and tidy and belonging just the way it was when they were young. Psychological reassurances of their "safety." Denial of the fact that they ARE getting on. Denial of the fact that other, younger people MIGHT be interested in doing this ham radio hobby thing. Oh, some of them whip up some adrenaline and do lip-service to old, trite phrases of "helping youngsters" and all that but the MUST keep THEIR playground in their order. NO changes allowed. Most don't help, don't bother to learn how to help. Why would a young person of today WANT to study morse code just to communicate on HF? Other than being in a "ham family?" The Internet opened to the public 14 years ago and most of the world is connected to the net. A shrink wrap CB transceiver is available over the counter for less than $100, complete with antenna and microphone. A pair of FRS hand-helds costs only $50 maximum and permits 5 mile two-way talking with isolation via digital mode. A cell phone with a built-in camera costs less than $100 and can communicate anywhere within range of a cell site...to the rest of the telephonic world. One in five Americans have cell phone subscriptions. Need to send documents across country fast? Go to chain drugstores and use their FAX machines. All sorts of quick communications possibilities for all today. COMPETITION OF INTEREST. Competition of quality and dependability. And all that hasn't touched on the OTHER advantages the younger folk have today, things that are entertaining, interesting, mind-holding. In truth, some young folks LIKE certain old things. That's been true in every generation. The best-ever stagecoaches are built today...in either California or Arizona (depending on your guild location)...for movie and TV use. Horseback riding is for personal pleasure today. It isn't a requirement to survive as it once was. When we want to send a telegram today, it is done by data modes probably through fiber-optic lines, transmission at relatively unlimited speed, securely and without error. No one has to go to the old train office and have some manual telegrapher translate it and send it at 10 to 20 words per minute. That was for times older than a century ago. Today's ham can purchase a top-of-the-line HF transceiver, fancy antenna and tower, peripheral gizmos up the gazoo, all for less than $5000. They get rock-solid frequency stability and read-out of same down to 10 Hz increments...Digital Signal Processing, "VFO 'split'" with frequency memories, sharp crystal filters to reduce QRM and QRN to a minimum...even operate it through a PC! None of that was available in a single package a half century ago. But, the olde-fahrts can sit back and dictate all MUST test for the 161-year-old "technology" skill of morse code on that HF. Incredible dichotomy. Incredible hypocrisy. Actuarial tables will manifest themselves. The mighty macho morsemen WILL have their morse keys pried out of their cold, dead fingers. Your prediction will come to pass. Perhaps much sooner than they expected. RIP. Bip Bip |
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John Smith wrote:
Len: A direct quote from Jim Haynie, "The ARRL president asserted that many Amateur Extra class licensees couldn't pass today's Element 4 examination if they had to..." Complete article at: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/05/22/1/?nc=1 Haynie's mistake is in assuming that because he might have trouble passing it, many others would also have difficulty. Dave K8MN |
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