"Dave Heil" wrote in message
ink.net...

My attitude toward many of the current crop of new techs is one bathed
upon five years observation, since returning to the U.S. I haven't chased
them anywhere. In fact, it has been just the opposite. I've tried to
encourage them to use simplex on FM. I've tried to encourage them to try
6 meters along with 432 and 144 MHz SSB and CW. I can't be faulted that
they don't act after being encouraged. If these folks are, in fact
"trapped" in a world of 2m only FM repeater operation, they have fashioned
the trap themselves by not being more curious about the rest of VHF/UHF
amateur radio. There are avenues open to them but they aren't
participating.

Dave K8MN


Man does that say it all in a well articulated paragraph. Valid points out
there
in tech land.

The Technician ticket originally was envisioned to enable those that had a
technical
slant that needed a place to play on the "air". It has degenerated into a
defacto
"entry level" to present day Ham Radio. What a bummer.

I bet a lot of those out there don't know that the original Tech written was
exactly
the same as the General. The ONLY difference was the General had a 13 WPM
cw test. Send and Receive. And the Tech had a 5wpm......and was available
by
mail.

Dan/W4NTI