John Smith wrote:
Morse is a ghost language spoken by old men when they do their rants and
name their illnesses--much to the dismay of the vital and youthful
hams...

? I've heard a lot of that on phone, but very little on CW.

The new 5 WPM test for all classes will guarantee you will NOT be
speaking morse to any young men--they will pass the 5 WPM to get the
extra license... then you will never see them again--except on phone and
modem...

That is true to a fair extent.


My own personal assessment of Haynie's talk is that he is correct to a
large extent.

The olde questions were not harder, they were different. Someone posed
a couple of likely candidate old time q's to me, and it took me just a
few minutes to find the answers.

I think the main problem with the older hams being "better" than folks
like me is the ability of many middle-aged and older men to get
incredibly worked up about almost nothing, forecasting doom from
inconsequential things.

- Mike KB3EIA -