From: on Fri, Aug 25 2006 4:22 pm


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From: on Thurs, Aug 24 2006 6:49 pm
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From: on Wed, Aug 23 2006 7:58 pm
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From: Cecil Moore on Wed, Aug 23 2006 6:38 am



The rabid morsemen are still in the 1950s when there was NO
"911" and certainly not cellular telephony. Even so, an
ordinary telephone could had called for help in the 1950s.

In the communications industry of today, the emphasis is
on WiFi and - still - cell phone technology. It's BIG
Business shown rather dramatically on rooftops and towers
all over the USA.

A couple years ago the US Census Bureau stated that one in
three Americans had a cell phone subscription. That's like
nearly 100 million of us...

The Indians learned to cut the telegraph wires early on. Saw that on
F-Troop.

The characters of "F-Troop" are still with us. Unable to sit a
horse, they now masquerade as amateur morsemen.


The ARRL resells a few fictional novels by a single author
(a gal) whose subject is mainly "saving the day" with
amateur radio, several of which are supposed to feature
the "life-saving abilities" of morsemanship. I've never
read any, just read the ad copy for them on the ARRL
website. In the writing trade those are known as
"teen-age novels" and are for the under-adult age group.

I've read several of them to my son when he was younger. The first
books were written by a guy. He's passed on, and now in the same
style, they are written by a gal.

OK, that's cool. As long as the readers can understand that
a novel is a work of fiction, fine. There are still a few
chowderheads who think the film "Independence Day" was a
documentary! :-)

What was the movie where the SK dad was sending ham radio messages back
to his son?

"Frequency." So-so movie in my personal reviews, nothing to pay
first-run admission for...


I immensely enjoyed the works of fiction served up by W0EX (SK), and
K3LT, where the story was so contrived that ONLY cw could save the day.

"Contrived?!?" :-) Whole-cloth BS I'd put it.

Well, yeh.

:-) All of them are wrapped up in their warm-and-fuzzy psych
blanket where They are the "best radio ops." As if... :-)


The "Al-Code-Ah" continue in their Jihad...

I'm curious what's really holding up the FCC on the issue.

So am I. It's nine months since the official close of
Comments on the NPRM.

Nine months? Gestation almost complete? "Birth" of an R&O
soon? :-)

That actually scares me. Recall the one that was so poorly written in
1998?

I didn't think it was "poorly written." Morsemen did. They
wanted to burn the FCC at the stake, ressurect them and have
them tortured in many ways... :-)

I'll just put it down to the FCC very busy with lots and lots
of other things to attend to in DC.

Ed's got them busy with BPL, and that needs to go away.

Ed doesn't seem to be DOING much. He is powerless to stop Access
BPL. ARRL doesn't realize that Access BPL just won't hold up in
the marketplace and will die of its own accord.


Amateur radio is small
stuff in the big scheme of things in all of radio. FCC prolly
has only one staffer working on the old NPRM and that one may
be time-sharing other work in progress.

Sounds like government. They rarely hire enough people or the right
people to get a really good end result.

The FCC was never chartered to be a cheerleader for amateur radio.
FCC merely regulates and mitigates civil radio services in the USA.
Amateur radio hobbyists need to stop their pipe-dreaming about
"greatness" and realize that they've long since been overtaken by
many, many other radio services. Some of those radio services
(Public Safety of Private Land Mobile Radio Services) are the ones
doing the everyday 24/7 role of assisting police, fire, and medical
agencies doing the ACTUAL saving of lives.

Some in here think amateur radio is "important." That's because
the ARRL has brainwashed them with false beliefs. Amateur radio
is a HOBBY, an avocational pursuit, a pleasureable personal free-
time activity done for the fun of it.

The sooner ARRL gets its rational side out in front the better it
will be for the olde-tyme morsemen to attrit gracefully and with
some measure of dignity. Not in the frozen-in-time-to-1930 fantasy
radio world they depict in their bragging and boasting.