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September 19th 05, 08:51 AM
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Dave Heil wrote: wrote: 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. That's fine for you. I'm sure that you'll understand that radio amateurs don't feel bound by what is important to you. 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 fantasy seems to be yours alone. You like to use terms like "fantasy" and "artificiality" and "last stand" when you write of morse code. The fact is, morse is very much alive within amateur radio. It bothers you. I can live with your being bothered. right that is of course why the Views of the advocates of Morse Code are being ignored by the FCC, ITU, IARU, and many of the nations on the planet ...[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. Fine, let Detroit modernize those keyless fob transmitters. Start a campaign. again your ability to understand english shows it sad state 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. Your past professional work does not, in and of itself, qualify you for an amateur radio license. Your paragraph of professional achievements is irrelevant to obtaining an amateur ticket. again with tangential matter I don't really NEED an amateur license to fulfill my Life's Ambition. There you go. Indeed Neither do I my Life Ambition are not based on a requirement for a Ham License But then you don't get the point or is it simplier than that? just a case of Binary thinking Ham radio is his lifes ambition so that means he will not pursue it But other licensees DEMAND that I get one in order to comment on regulations (contrary to what the U.S. Constitution says). Was that a deliberate distortion on your part or have you just become forgetful? No a simple turth many of the Licensees esp arround DO indeed demand such before allowing comment Maybe I "should" get one? :-) "Tribal rules," ey what? :-) It looks as if you've been busy making up your mind on whether to do so for nearly the past six years. I'm betting on inertia. Have a nice lunch and catch a nap, OT. what is the hurry? Dave K8MN |
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