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Morris Code -plus- Continuous Wave (CW) Radio Transmission -and- Semaphore Signals ? Do They Defining Amateur Radio ?
Yes. That's understandable. Hams these days don't want to act like hams, they like to be appliance operators. So kids don't see that CW is important and fun. All they see is hams gabbing on a microphone like any CB'er can do. SC Actually a lot of tghe boy scouts know morse code, they still arent intersted in ham radio. |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
"Dirk" wrote in message ... Ham's care more about operating appliances than knowing how to save a lives. :-( Hams could save more lives by supporting a blood drive than than standing by waiting for that emergency to use morse code. I hear about hams supporting public service, my daughter DID 75 hrs of public service last year as a ten year old Girl Scout. I learned CW even got up to 20 wpm but I dont think it should be any more of a requirement than any other mode of operation. There is a lot of hams who may not be able to save anyones lives but they could save their own by turning off the radio for an hour and taking a walk |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
From: on Sun, Aug 20 2006 1:55 pm
wrote: wrote: wrote: wrote: wrote: His, "Sorry Hans, MARS IS Amateur Radio." would make a good, quick, clean case study for some grad student of psychology. It has all of the elements of that pathology and google serves it up in seconds. Quite true, Brian. Those of us who were here 1 to 2 years ago had an eyefull of his continuous - but faulty - efforts to "tell" us all about His fantasy of things. :-) Little Billy Beeper had him pegged - he's nuts. True enough. :-( Mainly it was his abject refusal to back down when faced with definitive directives by the government (DoD) in regard to the Military Affiliate Radio System. Such complete ignorance of MARS, yet somehow, he claims that he was the Assistant NCOIC of a NMC MARS Station on Okinawa. Simply unbeleivable. It gets worse. Go to the QRZ bio page for K4YZ and use his link to his AOL Home Page. There he claims not only an Assistant "CHOP" (presumably CHief OPerator) but as THE CHOP of another MARS station! He'd never mentioned being at that 2nd MARS station in here. Weeks went by without his admitting that the Directive existed. His final communication on the subject would NOT openly admit to error but was laced with more personal insults on his challengers. Sad. Accusations and insults. Whichever grad student locks on to him first is one lucky SOB. All the work is done. Yeah, but look at the MASSIVE outpouring of his claims, insults, and generally vague, undetailed personal history of his. Whoever takes it on will probably need a dozen file cabinets to store all the printouts! :-) [a fine example of today's Extra class amateur licensee...] |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
jawod wrote: [a fine example of today's Extra class amateur licensee...] You want to slam all Extras because of one lid? Perhaps that same psych grad student has some prime real estate closer to (your) home? well there Is Robeson and Wismen Heil is better than them but.. How many example does one need? right now the sample rate isn't very good of Extras that are not members of NCI given your non disclosed call status you certainly don't count |
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Morris Code -plus- Continuous Wave (CW) Radio Transmission -and- Semaphore Signals ? Do They Defining Amateur Radio ?
Slow Code wrote: "Jimmie D" wrote in : Yes. That's understandable. Hams these days don't want to act like hams, they like to be appliance operators. So kids don't see that CW is important and fun. that is becuase it isn't important and fun for some it is neither but it is not important in the modern world period |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
From: jawod on Sun, Aug 20 2006 8:45 pm
[a fine example of today's Extra class amateur licensee...] You want to slam all Extras because of one lid? Tsk, tsk, tsk, anony-mousie "Jawod," that LID is doing the "slamming," not I. :-) Why are YOU so upset, "Jawod?" You don't exist. You are a mere figment of your own imagination. The FCC doesn't license figments... Perhaps that same psych grad student has some prime real estate closer to (your) home? Which home? The one in California or the one in Washington (state)? :-) As far as the southern home is concerned, its address has been printed with every article I had published in HAM RADIO magazine. It's still the same address. No problem on "knowing psych" people. Graduates...of USC, (University of California) of UI (University of Illinois), of University of Wisconsin at Madison. "Students?" Not greatly acquainted with any, only their instructors. My wife has two Masters Degrees, one of which required a thorough education in mental health...and she was licensed in two states for private practice. "Jawod," what you just attempted to do was INTIMIDATE through suggestion. Old, old BLUFF. Didn't work, of course, but you just had to try the bully game, didn't you? :-) That bluff-intimidation ploy has been used for years and years on BBSs and Internet...almost always by those too cowardly to reveal their true identity. [few of us would be "scared" if we found out how you REALLY are...] Try not to be such a blatant bull****ter in the future, OK? Beep, beep and bye-eeee... |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
From: on Sun, Aug 20 2006 2:57 pm
wrote: From: on Thurs, Aug 10 2006 8:48 pm Al Klein wrote: On 9 Aug 2006 19:14:54 -0700, wrote: That's my point - there's no test any longer. For anything more than the ability to memorize answers. Lots of memorization was required in your day. It's only a bad thing in 1992 to present. I think I get your drift... Selective amnesia. "No one had to memorize anything" prior 1992. Not in grade school, not in college, not in industry, not in real life. Strange perception... Selective amnesia... With the advent of the No-Code Technician license, memorization became a bad, bad thing. Tsk. Brian, there's another individual for study by that psych student. Ummm? There's no Morse Code test anymore? The International Morse Code test for United States amateur radio license classes General and Extra have NEVER GONE AWAY. That is especially true in the perception of the ARRL which still manages to insert the "necessities" for morsemanship in nearly everything it publishes. It's been six decades since Hiram Percy became ultimate DX but they still keep on with their demand that all [US] amateurs be proficient in that old mode. Most issues of QST have a minimum of at least one walk down memory lane, usually with a key or keyer in one hand. ARRL views itself as "representative" of the ARS. Unfortunately, the 'ARS' stands for Amateur Radiotelegraphy Society. What current exam? Memorizing answers and writing them down isn't a test. So what is it that you fear? Klein fears CHANGE and, perhaps, feelings of obsolescence. I think everyone has some of that to one degree or another. It's unhealthy to allow that fear to paralyze you. Yes and no. When it comes to Status-Rank-Privilege the fear of LOSS of those seems to take on a life of its own. They are SOMEBODIES at present, complete with federally-authorized permission and certificates (suitable for framing) to "prove" that. Take away the status, the rank, and perhaps privileges and they are (in their own perception) "lesser beings." That seems to work with the normal prime survival rule in humans. Someone who has been a regular worker in electronics (radio is a subset of electronics) ought to damn well know and recognize that the state of the art in electronics has been CONSTANTLY changing. It's sometimes a chore to keep up, whether it be 1950 or 2000 or any time in-between. There will be new challenges before us tomorrow, but we won't know about them. We will still be arguing if a morse code exam is necessary. True. "Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." :-) Mmmm. I see. You are a careerist in the electronics industry and it ****es you off that hobbyists have equal "status" as you in amatuer radio. I've run across a lot of that in the past 20 years... I've run across a lot of that my entire life. :-) I think Klein wants recognition as a "professional amateur" or "amateur professional." I'm not sure which... He's a professional whiner. :-) What if you addressed what I said when you answer me? Your dishonest tactics are transparent. You're the one that forgot the circuit, not me. Get ****ed at your own self. When in doubt of an effective reply, these Fundamentalist Morseodists must resort to some form of denigration. Sigh, they never learn... My dishonest, transparent tactics... Odd, saying what you mean and meaning what you say have become dishonest. Klein is just a teeny bit more civil than Major Dud. Robeson just shouts "LIAR! LIAR!" :-) Quit putting words in my mouth. I wasn't complaining to anyone, and we weren't discussing remembering 50 year old tests. Correct. "WE" weren't discussing it. YOU were. YOU were discussing how you can't draw what you can't remember. This is an indicator that Klein isn't used to computer-modem communications. He isn't looking beyond his own screen and understanding that others are separated from it in time and space. "He" was obviously talking about "old days" of "His." He is not considering that others do not share his viewpoints. I regret to inform Mr Klein that I do not agree with him. I also don't agree with him. Maybe he's gotten the message? Considering the Type of Oscillator and "names," he has put Names as somehow "essential" to the circuit. NO SUCH THING. An oscillator is simply an amplifier of just-barely-past-unity gain with positive feedback. The Names were tacked on by academics long, long ago as IDENTIFICATION of the general form of amplification-with-positive-feedback. I'm surprised that Klein allows any feedback in his oscillator circuits. Positive feedback (pro-code type) allowed. Negative feedback is "dishonest." :-) Maybe we should have one - show the ability to put a clean PSK signal on the air. Show the ability to interpret a waterfall display. Show the ability to tell the difference between various digital modes. The bands would be pretty QRM-free. YES!!! [ no... ] Huh? Lets let the FCC tell us that it is impractical to have everyone take mode exams. Or lets let the council of VECs tul us the same thing. Klein, armed only with an air of self-importance and inflated claims of experience, is shooting from the lip. IF and only IF such a "practical test" were imposed, the time of testing EACH license applicant would increase dramatically. VEs would have to spend at least a day's worth of time on each applicant. I think VEs would object to such enforced labor in a Volunteer task. As with other proponents of a "practical test," Klein hasn't explained WHO will maintain the equipment necessary for such "practical tests" nor make up the much-more-complicated test tasks and grading. Who will pay for the equipment that would cover "everything" as to modes and operations? The FCC? The VECs? Who will pay the VEs for their (essentially) "jobs"? Klein assigns an importance and ability of AMATEUR activities in radio far higher than professional ones. This is wrong, but it serves his and other pro-coders self-image of being "better" because they passed tests lobbied-for by those of the same mindset. If the league pushes the morse testing issue too hard, it will become obvious to the 25% that are members. I don't think so. The Amateur Radiotelegraphy Society is very firmly SET in their ideas of keeping the "heritage" and "tradition" of being a living museum of archaic radio. Those firm believers and worshippers at the Church of St. Hiram are disciples and they haven't had their last supper yet. I think it is you who don't know where you're going with this discussion. It's gone beyond your having grief over your favorite mode to actually having to think about the future of the service. Conggrats. Another couple of years of RRAP tutoring and you just might become a rational being. I disagree, Brian. Klein is a MORSEMAN. They don't change. They are rooted in old days long gone, brainwashed early into thinking that morsemanship is "essential" to "best" radio communication. It isn't...easily proved by ALL the OTHER radio services giving up on morse code as a mode (if they had it once) or never requiring it since a radio service began. Actuarial tables abound to deal with that kind of thinking. That's a draconian sort of realism...but, unfortunately true. Believers can be extremely stubborn. "The only way you'll stop morse code is to pry my code key from my cold, dead fingers" isn't an idle threat. Morsemen as SOMEBODIES and they will hold that banner high even as they crumble. Yep. Testing must become more "legitimate" for hobbyists than for professionals. Self-inflation of importance, meaningless in reality. The exam can be anything your VEC wants it to be. We learned this when the ARRL went from administering a Morse Code Exam at 5WPM to administering a Farnsworth Exam at 13-15WPM. True enough, Brian, but expect ten kinds of flak from the other morsepersons in here on that... :-) Quack, Quack! Water off a duck's back. :-) The VEC can LEGALLY generate a Question Pool with ONE HUNDRED times the minimum required number of questions. With electronic transmittal over the Internet the Question Pool can be updated within 24 hours to ALL VE groups. But everytime the NCVEC solicits for questions and participants for the QP revisions, guys like Klein are silent; absent. That shows they are only whining, not thinking. In order to preserve their self-image of importance they have to continue whining on how they are so self-important. If they REALLY CARED about their sacred amateurism they would get busy and work at preserving things. Perhaps mumifying instead of preservation... What all that concentration on the "written tests" is about is just a DIVERSION to keep from replying on the singular morse code test continuation. The morsemen just haven't been able to come up with sufficently-valid reasons to keep the morse test (other than the emotional ones) so they smoke-screen by bringing up the writtens. Old tactic of theirs. Old and tired. It is, but they are self-important because of a singular skill test that makes them "better" than others..."better" in ways not even remotely connected to that singular skill test. Seems to me that COLLEGE-level course tests that I took had a LOT of memorization. Maybe we should all slam the academic world for doing the same "memorization?" Hey, why not, all those who failed college level courses can get a Wailing Wall! Bill Gates at the wailing wall? Nah...Bill G. QUIT Harvard "to pursue other interests." :-) He could probably BUY Harvard now...and have lots more left in his petty-cash box. :-) Oh, yeah, and Bill Gates is PRO-CODE! Only problem for hams is that the "code" isn't morse but programming code... :-) Brian, if you check out the "official" history of the ARRL you will find out that they BEGAN in trying to circumvent the commercial telegram system with a relaying of messages past the commercial boundaries and FEES. If that were reported today, the journalists would call it "hacking." Oh, oh. It is TRUE according to the ARRL's own history. But, they've written it (cleverly) so that it LOOKS like some kind of noble thing that "wasn't cheating anyone." :-) Some of these Olde Fahrts seem to think their amateurism is on some kind of "higher plane" than ordinary, plebian, work. They be BETTER than the pros and keep reinforcing each other with that pipe-dream. After all, the ARRL keeps reminding them of their greatness, their "service to their country" (by having their hobby). To hear them talk the nation would immediately fall apart without these federally-licensed hobbyists! Don't know if you've heard yet, but the ARRL and robesin announced that MARS and TSA have an agreement for armageddon communications. Heh heh, I wouldn't doubt it... :-) [via "giant meteor bounce?" ... off the earth, that is? :-) ] I thought Robesin had put on his (invisible) USMC uniform and was busy pounding brass with the USCG offshore from Beirut to evacuate US civilians? :-) |
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If Lennie Anderson Went One Day Without Disparging The Amateur Radio Service, Would Andy Rooney's Eyebrows Fall Out? Subtitled: The Feeble Five Backslap Each Other
LenCan'tPassThe wrote: From: on Sun, Aug 20 2006 2:57 pm Most issues of QST have a minimum of at least one walk down memory lane, usually with a key or keyer in one hand. ARRL views itself as "representative" of the ARS. Unfortunately, the 'ARS' stands for Amateur Radiotelegraphy Society. At the Anderscum residence, perhaps. For the nearly 700,000 of us with licenses, it's the Amateur Radio Service. Note: Leonard H. Anderson is not an FCC licensee in that service. I think everyone has some of that to one degree or another. It's unhealthy to allow that fear to paralyze you. Yes and no. When it comes to Status-Rank-Privilege the fear of LOSS of those seems to take on a life of its own. You would know, Lennie... It's YOU that perceives that loss...For by taking the same test mere mortals do, you "surrender" your "I Was An Electronics Engineer" brags. Snip of usual Anti-Amateur Radio rhetoric. Odd, saying what you mean and meaning what you say have become dishonest. Klein is just a teeny bit more civil than Major Dud. Robeson just shouts "LIAR! LIAR!" Who's "Major Dud"..?!?! And I don't have to shout it, Lennie... You make it quite apparent. I regret to inform Mr Klein that I do not agree with him. I also don't agree with him. Maybe he's gotten the message? Maybe he doesn't see the need to try and "debate" those who only want to throw sand...?!?! If the league pushes the morse testing issue too hard, it will become obvious to the 25% that are members. I don't think so. The Amateur Radiotelegraphy Society is very firmly SET in their ideas of keeping the "heritage" and "tradition" of being a living museum of archaic radio. Those firm believers and worshippers at the Church of St. Hiram are disciples and they haven't had their last supper yet. Thankfully OUR "last supper" will come long, LONG after yours, Lennie... Actuarial tables abound to deal with that kind of thinking. That's a draconian sort of realism...but, unfortunately true. And as I was saying...Let's hope YOUR tables are into small numbers. MORE SNIPPAGE Don't know if you've heard yet, but the ARRL and robesin announced that MARS and TSA have an agreement for armageddon communications. Heh heh, I wouldn't doubt it... "Armageddon"...?!?! No one announced "armageddon" in any release that I am aware of. Why did you? Yet more evidence of why it's better to have Lennie "Can't Pass An Exam" Anderson on the outside looking in. Steve, K4YZ |
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