My, oh my. Lennie's Rely's runneth over yet again.


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From: Iitoi on Fri 4 Nov 2005 01:34


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Why don't you just reveal this "website" and be done with it? If it is
"so much better" than what I've done, then others will obviously see so!

One other analysis that I've seen is by a Northern Mariana Islands
callsign http://ah0a.org/FCC/05-235/ --- it may be the site that N2EY
refers to.

That certainly seems to be the one. Nice and colorful, looks great
in any GUI display. :-)

Joe Speroni (AH0A) has to be taken for what he is: An absolute
morseman who values morse code skill over everything else in
United States amateur radio. Speroni is also a Petitioner to the
FCC who has yet to have his Petitions granted. shrug :-)

I put Speroni into a category of one who has a LOT of emotional
baggage tied up in morse code and code testing.

If it is, N2EY's blustering is a puzzlement because the results at that
site are strikingly similar to your tabulation, with 45% fully in favor
of the NRPM (drop the test) and 55% in favor of keeping some level of
CW testing.

No "puzzlement" to me. :-) Jimmie has been consistently
against on just about everything I've ever written in here.
Since I am NOT in favor of morse code testing (as are several
others), he loves to "get on my (and their's) case" to show
"how mistaken" I (and they) am.

Jimmie ("N2EY," which any day might become his legal name) has
now resorted to attacking my choice of residence (the one I
chose in May of 1963) and attempts ridicule of that location
by partial lyrics of an old pop song ("little houses made of
ticky-tacky"). :-) TS. I'll turn my collar around and get
out my punch for his card. [he's probably never heard of the
"TS Card" that was common in the military]

Speroni's "Analysis" is probably no more "flawed" than mine.
The difference is in his categorization and the fact that he
has NOT posted it in here. I began posting results almost
daily from the beginning of August; Speroni has ONE display
and MUST be taken as "accurate" (since he is an unabashed
morse code advocate). Speroni hasn't been subjected to the
heckling I've received in here on a regular basis since
September. :-)

Speroni counts REPLIES to Comments as "duplicates" in order
to arrive at a code-favored percentage in his "results." We
could extend that to questionable categorization of husband-
wife teams filing separately...but that effort isn't worth
the time wasted for "accuracy." There's also some obvious
(if one checks the posted address) of family members filing
separately. Lots and lots of variations of "inaccuracy"
charges possible!

Note also the subtle biasing of the icon indicators on
Speroni's "analysis" sheet. All those against code testing
have the red slant bar across them. All those for code
testing are green or blue with no ("do not do") red slant
bars. Those for-code icons are also clear, nothing to show
that they are the exact OPPOSITE of the NPRM. :-)

My "percentage" was shown strictly as an INDICATOR of the
opinion. What the FCC uses for decisions is up to them.
My "score card" isn't "official." Neither is Speroni's.

If anyone bothered to look at my continuing series of "score
card" postings, they would have seen a most decided "FOR"
position on the NPRM early in the comment period (better than
2:1). By the official notice date in the Federal Register,
VERY late in my opinion, the pro-code-test comments had
increased but not yet achieved "supremacy" over the no-code-
test comments OR the "code test for extra" folks.

Here's an important fact AND a big unknown about the
comments: According to the statements in both the NPRM
and Federal Register, the comment period begins ONLY on
the FR notice date. WE citizens don't know if the FCC
will consider all those comments made BEFORE the notice
date! If the FCC doesn't, then the number of CONSIDERED
filings drop to nearly half and the "percentages" get
skewed. Speroni did NOT mention that in his "analysis."
I did, from day one of the FR notice. The Federal Register
notices are legally binding on federal law, regulations,
and rules.

He classifies the valid responses on the same basis as you ("For NRPM",
"Keep the current test", and "Extra Only"). Then he has three
categories of "Others" which aren't included in his tally (Dupes and
other junk).

Speroni has NOT "classified" or even included 10 filings
that showed up under 31 Oct 05, all done by LAW STUDENTS.
As of 2 PM EDT on 4 Nov 05, those "moot court" exercise
papers number 17 (3 are unidentified as to individual and
were copied and filed as one filing by the FCC). The total
number of filings up to the official end of Comments period
are now 3,697, not the lower number Speroni shows for today.

All this doesn't matter in RRAP as far as Miccolis is
concerned. Anyone favoring code testing is "accurate" to
him and anyone not favoring code testing is "inaccurate!"

Quod erat demonstrandum (for years in here). :-)



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