Dan/W4NTI wrote:
"Dave Heil" wrote in message
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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.

Indeed it does. David has articulated, and Dan has agreed that a Tech
really isn't worth much as an amateur if they don't do the things that
Dave, Dan and Dee want them to be doing. I'm sure that your attitudes
spill over into your communication with those unworthy Techs.

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.

Degenerated? Dan, I'd like to introduce you to the FCC sometime. It
was the FCC that turned the Technician license into your disdained
entry level to present day "Ham Radio."

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

Thanks for the insight into the "Mind of Dan."