From: Dave Heil on Sep 18, 9:40 pm

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.

Did I "promise" that in some kind of "oath" or "vow?" Try to
refrain from taking text out of context, your emminent Lardship.

YOU do NOT "speak" for the entirety of the "amateur community."

YOU are NOT in the "leadership." [despite implications to the
contrary]


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.

No. Wrong. Error. What I wrote is documented history.

You like to use terms like "fantasy" and "artificiality" and "last
stand" when you write of morse code.

Show us by documented fact that morse code manual radiotelegraphy
is IN USE by radio services other than amateur radio TODAY.

The fact is, morse is very much alive within amateur radio.

It has AGED. It will eventually become terminal. By ARRL poll
morse code mode is only SECOND in popularity on ham HF bands.

The argument about NPRM 05-143 is NOT about morse code USE, it
is about the TEST for morse code cognition.

I can live with your being bothered.

Wrong. Error. You are obsessed with "getting the last word"
with anyone who disagrees with you...on morse code testing or
anything else. YOU are very much BOTHERED. You will try to
assassinate the character of anyone writing against your
sacred viewpoints...and have, repeatedly.



Your past professional work does not, in and of itself, qualify you for
an amateur radio license.

I've never said it should. Really! :-)

Does AMATEUR radio operate by "different" physical principles than
all other radio services? Yes? No?

Explain that. Explain how morse code testing shows "dedication
and commitment to the amateur community" in lieu of written test
elements.

Is amateur radio "all about morse code?"

NPRM 05-143, currently under Comment period under WT Docket 05-235,
is solely about the elimination or retention of morse code TESTING
in FCC regulations governing United States amateur radio.

Instead of concentrating so much on character assassination of all
who disagree with you, explain to the FCC the reasons, valid
reasons, why the FCC should retain test element 1 in regulations.


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 "distortion." Actual fact. The first one is found on the
ECFS for WT Docket 98-143, dated 25 January 1999, filed by
Dudly under the surname "Robeson." [it's not in Google archives
but in the FCC archives, still viewable]

You have repeatedly said that I should not be commenting at all
on the subject of amateur radio as a "non participant." In case
you've forgotten (already), the staff and Commissioners are
"non participants" in amateur radio yet the FCC very much
regulates, mitigates, and enforces United States amateur radio!

You have NEGLECTED all those others - IN Google archives - who
have demanded that I be a licensed radio amateur in order to
talk anything about it.

It looks as if you've been busy making up your mind on whether to do so
for nearly the past six years.

Not at all. I dismissed the idea of getting a personal amateur
radio license back in the 1960s for many and varied reasons. I've
stated those. That you refuse to believe them is not my concern.

Have a nice lunch and catch a nap, OT.

I had a "working lunch" but no "nap" needed. I would suggest you
see a real medical doctor about the first signs of Alzheimer's
Disease. You have become forgetful and are unable to concentrate.
Alzheimer's can manifest itself at any age past 40...and you DO
easily qualify for that, old-timer. Serious stuff...and you are
showing those first symptoms already.