From: "Alun L. Palmer" on Sat 17 Sep 2005 22:29

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in

No "Alun L. Palmer" Lennie the loser is transfixed on the anti-CW
testing campaign. He can not carry on a discussion that has NOTHING to
do with CW or testing without out bringing it into the discussion.

Get it now?

Why put my name in quotes? Plug it into the FCC database and it will come
back with N3KIP, and show you that I am an Extra. Do you think I'm someone
else?

Jeswald wants all to be identified by their "tribal name" (the
callsign in a ham radio group). When the "tribe" gathers, all
must stay within the "tribal rules." :-)

I[f] Len is transfixed on this issue, I suspect it's because he really wants a
ham licence, despite his protestations to the contrary.

"Transfixed?" No. Just terribly, terribly PERSISTENT. :-)

Considering that I've been involved with communications (of many
kinds, not just radio) for a half-century plus, and starting out
with full exposure to HF radio communications at a professional
level, the METHODS of communications are more important to me than
the ABILITY for personal communications. Radiotelegraphy was the
very first - and ONLY possible way - to communicate by radio.
That was a mere 109 years ago, before all of electronics had
rather revolutionized our society, before the vacuum tube was
invented, well before the transistor was invented.

Telegraphy itself is 161 years old. It had become mature at
52 years when the first radio communication was demonstrated.
It is primitive, simplistic in method, very slow compared to
normal human speech, prone to human error at either end of a
radio circuit, and requires radiotelegraphy specialists at
both ends in order to communicate written words. Its efficacy
is largely fantasy, an artificiality promoted by much-earlier
radiotelegraphers using their own abilities as role models for
all others to follow. Radiotelegraphy's last stand in radio is
AMATEUR radio license testing; all other radio services have
given up on using radiotelegraphy for communications. [the
largest use of radiotelegraphy is the long pulse code of the
keyless auto entry "fob" transmitter, but that is for control,
not communications and does not use the Morse-Vail coding]
Modernization should be the order of the day, not the odor of
antiquity.

The "necessity" of testing for morse code cognition to operate
any radio transmitter at 30 MHz or below is an old artificiality
of the mind, abandoned by all other radio services, technically
invalid, kept alive only by the egos and fantasies and
conditioned thinking of those needing something, some ability
to be "better than average." It is out of date, out of time,
out of steam, and out to lunch.

Do "I" want a ham license? Yes and no. :-) I've had a
commercial license since '56, tested for it at a real FCC field
office (not a COLEM), had experience in operating HF, VHF, UHF,
microwave radios prior to that, more afterwards including LF,
VLF and microwaves on up to 4mm wavelengths. I've retired from
a career in radio-electronics design engineering (but only for
regular hours). I've been a hobbyist in radio-electronics
since 1947, something on-going. I don't really NEED an amateur
license to fulfill my Life's Ambition. But other licensees
DEMAND that I get one in order to comment on regulations
(contrary to what the U.S. Constitution says). Maybe I "should"
get one? :-) "Tribal rules," ey what? :-)

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