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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:43:31 GMT, Slow Code spake
thusly: Opus- wrote in : I said it before and I'll say it again. 70 years ago a good mechanic needed carpentry skills but no more. 70 years ago a good ham needed to know code but no more. A code test for todays prospective hams is like a carpentry test for todays prospective mechanics. When you have to spend time building a skill, you spend more time learning other related things as well. Hams that haven't had to study to pass a 13 wpm CW exam, probably don't know the written portion of the exam as will as hams that did. If I hadn't had to pass 20 wpm for my Extra, I would have taken the exam a lot sooner, but as I had to build my CW abilities, I also spend more time learning the theory too. It made me a better ham. Was code the ONLY way to learn the written portion? Besides, using a bunch of beeps to spell out characters over the airwaves takes no technical ability at all. Here in Canada, a no-code license requires MORE technical skill than a code license. In other words, here in Canada you need to learn MORE to pass a no-code license since learning code is a motor skill, not a technical one. You people don't want knowledgable hams anymore. Learning code does not impart any type of "knowledge" any more than learning roller skating. CB'ers dont have to learn CW, are they better? Based on the CBers I used to hear on the higher sideband channels, I heard very little of the insults I have seen here spewed by some of the pro-coders. Therefore, I'd say that they were at least better behaved than the aforementioned pro-coders. Yes, there were assholes on CB, but CB didn't make them that way. By the same token, learning code will not turn an asshole into a nice guy. CB is just a ham radio in the embryo stage, a zygote. The only real difference between CB and ham is the choices of bands and the power of the transmitter, when you really look at things in the most basic sense. |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
From: Opus- on Wed, Sep 6 2006 11:05 pm
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:43:31 GMT, Slow Code spake thusly: Opus- wrote in m: I said it before and I'll say it again. 70 years ago a good mechanic needed carpentry skills but no more. 70 years ago a good ham needed to know code but no more. A code test for todays prospective hams is like a carpentry test for todays prospective mechanics. When you have to spend time building a skill, you spend more time learning other related things as well. Hams that haven't had to study to pass a 13 wpm CW exam, probably don't know the written portion of the exam as will as hams that did. If I hadn't had to pass 20 wpm for my Extra, I would have taken the exam a lot sooner, but as I had to build my CW abilities, I also spend more time learning the theory too. It made me a better ham. Was code the ONLY way to learn the written portion? Besides, using a bunch of beeps to spell out characters over the airwaves takes no technical ability at all. Agreed. But, please remember that Blow Code is a morse bigot. He (or she) is representative of only a minority of United States radio amateurs. When the major accomplishment in life of such morse bigots has been morsemanship, they will naturally trumpet that singular skill and attempt to moralize it as some kind of positive attribute that one MUST have. Here in Canada, a no-code license requires MORE technical skill than a code license. In other words, here in Canada you need to learn MORE to pass a no-code license since learning code is a motor skill, not a technical one. I applaud Industry Canada's decision on their regulations. My contact with Canadian regulations has been minimal but their website on radio regulations explained it all. Blow Code is confused on the task of the United States FCC in regulating ALL US civil radio; our FCC is not a booster organization for amateur radio or any other radio service here. The FCC only "wants" radio service users to obey the regulations. Manual radiotelegraphy skill testing for an amateur radio license has existed since the first US radio regulating agency and was maintained mostly out of inertia and the insistence of the ARRL (once it had risen above its competition) through lobbying the FCC. Given the vast scope of today's radio services, the FCC has a far greater task to keep up with its regulatory task. Amateur radio here is low on the regulatory task list of the FCC. Manual telegraphy IS a motor skill (more correct "psycho- motor" skill) but morse bigots become more psycho about their personal skills, equating it to intellectual knowledge and the ability to reason. Morse bigots see only their kind and want to destroy those who think differently; that is security for their "tribe." You people don't want knowledgable hams anymore. Learning code does not impart any type of "knowledge" any more than learning roller skating. ^^ [an example of the morse bigot and their confusion over psycho-motor skills versus intellectual knowledge] CB'ers dont have to learn CW, are they better? Based on the CBers I used to hear on the higher sideband channels, I heard very little of the insults I have seen here spewed by some of the pro-coders. Therefore, I'd say that they were at least better behaved than the aforementioned pro-coders. The gratuitous insults to Citizens Band Radio Service users has been in existance since 1958 when the USA authorized its use here (as 'Class D' CB on only 23 27 MHz band channels). That's a time span of 48 years. From its inception CB has NEVER required ANY testing to obtain a CB license. The "license" was pro-forma, a slight revision of the Restricted Class of Radio- telephone Operator license then common to services such as both private and civil aviation pilots. Nearly a half century ago, US radio amateurs developed a distaste for the US government and these new radio service users for: (1) "Taking away" their 11 meter band (little used, sitting below the largest amateur radio allocation on HF); having the audacity in NOT requiring any testing plus intolerant bitching over NOT having to pass any morse code test. That almost- hatred developed into the bigotry seen today. The bigotry grew when about a decade after authorization the offshore electronics industries hit the US market with less-expensive CB transceivers and long-haul truckers took to that service. CB users here soon out-numbered radio amateurs by a large margin. With such a huge base of users, a common patois/lingo/jargon grew that was NOT related to amateur radio but had roots in our state highway patrol police organizations. That lingo became quite different than amateurs' use of theirs, so that reinforced the "different-destroy" attitude of the amateurs' bigotry against CB users. Amateurs like to make fun of CB lingo but don't realize their jargon is amusing to other HF radio service users and the military radio. Amateurs tend to think of themselves as first and foremost without realizing that they never were first nor foremost and were always a minority in radio. Yes, there were assholes on CB, but CB didn't make them that way. By the same token, learning code will not turn an asshole into a nice guy. Morse bigots have the egotistical self-definition of THEIR skills being the only "true" ones for amateur radio. They will rationalize that self-righteous attitude with any number of archaic "reasons" that defy validity for regulatory purposes by radio regulating agencies. In last year's Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on the elimination of morse code testing for US radio amateurs, several Commenters cited the ability to "thwart terrorism" by using morse code! :-) Apparently they had taken a Hollywood motion picture fictional depiction of aliens-from-outer-space-invasion as a documentary of a real event [film title was "Independence Day"]! CB is just a ham radio in the embryo stage, a zygote. The only real difference between CB and ham is the choices of bands and the power of the transmitter, when you really look at things in the most basic sense. I see it differently. Human beings like to communicate. That is evident in the enormous growth of cellular telephony and daily use of that; the US Census Bureau stated two years ago the one in three Americans had a cell phone subscription. That is roughly 100 million users of those tiny full-duplex radio transceivers. Several million CB users exist on USA highways (exact figures unknown as CB has been unlicensed for years, but can be approximated from EIA - Electronic Industry Association - statistics on manufactured and imported electronic equipment). FRS and GMRS unlicensed UHF HTs may exceed the million mark by now. In the maritime radio service private boat owners' VHF radios exceed that of commercial ship owners, VHF voice required on inland waterways and harbors for traffic control. Private boat owners are increasing their HF radio use on deep-water travels unsing HF SSB voice (a few radios marketed for sales to both them and radio amateurs). CB is 48 years old, hardly a youngster/child/teener. It is DIFFERENT than amateur radio on HF, therefore abhored by some radio amateurs stuck in their radio bigotry attitudes put there long ago by their ancestors. If truck drivers have spread a DIFFERENT lingo on CB radio, then they did so out of THEIR need to communicate about THEIR things, not some self- righteous and not-required-by-regulation "traditional" lingo used by hams. Amateurs don't/can't speak to others on HF and are restricted (in the USA) to "non-essential" communications (paraphrased from US regulations). Truck drivers CAN and DO communicate with others on and off the highways freely and with much less of the bigotry displayed by some radio amateurs looking for someone to destroy. Where does manual radiotelegraphy fit into this? It doesn't. |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Dee Flint wrote:
"Opus-" wrote in message ... CW is as useful to todays Hams as carpentry is to a mechanic. A good thing to learn, and potentially useful, but should not be a barrier. This is where your analogy falls apart. CW is currently very useful to hams. It is in daily use. However, the arguments have already been presented and those with closed minds have rejected them. Pity the morse zealots and their closed minds... :-) |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
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ups.com: From: Opus- on Wed, Sep 6 2006 11:05 pm On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:43:31 GMT, Slow Code spake thusly: Opus- wrote in : I said it before and I'll say it again. 70 years ago a good mechanic needed carpentry skills but no more. 70 years ago a good ham needed to know code but no more. A code test for todays prospective hams is like a carpentry test for todays prospective mechanics. When you have to spend time building a skill, you spend more time learning other related things as well. Hams that haven't had to study to pass a 13 wpm CW exam, probably don't know the written portion of the exam as will as hams that did. If I hadn't had to pass 20 wpm for my Extra, I would have taken the exam a lot sooner, but as I had to build my CW abilities, I also spend more time learning the theory too. It made me a better ham. Was code the ONLY way to learn the written portion? Besides, using a bunch of beeps to spell out characters over the airwaves takes no technical ability at all. Agreed. But, please remember that Blow Code is a morse bigot. He (or she) is representative of only a minority of United States radio amateurs. When the major accomplishment in life of such morse bigots has been morsemanship, they will naturally trumpet that singular skill and attempt to moralize it as some kind of positive attribute that one MUST have. Here in Canada, a no-code license requires MORE technical skill than a code license. In other words, here in Canada you need to learn MORE to pass a no-code license since learning code is a motor skill, not a technical one. I applaud Industry Canada's decision on their regulations. My contact with Canadian regulations has been minimal but their website on radio regulations explained it all. Blow Code is confused on the task of the United States FCC in regulating ALL US civil radio; our FCC is not a booster organization for amateur radio or any other radio service here. The FCC only "wants" radio service users to obey the regulations. Manual radiotelegraphy skill testing for an amateur radio license has existed since the first US radio regulating agency and was maintained mostly out of inertia and the insistence of the ARRL (once it had risen above its competition) through lobbying the FCC. Given the vast scope of today's radio services, the FCC has a far greater task to keep up with its regulatory task. Amateur radio here is low on the regulatory task list of the FCC. Manual telegraphy IS a motor skill (more correct "psycho- motor" skill) but morse bigots become more psycho about their personal skills, equating it to intellectual knowledge and the ability to reason. Morse bigots see only their kind and want to destroy those who think differently; that is security for their "tribe." You people don't want knowledgable hams anymore. Learning code does not impart any type of "knowledge" any more than learning roller skating. ^^ [an example of the morse bigot and their confusion over psycho-motor skills versus intellectual knowledge] CB'ers dont have to learn CW, are they better? Based on the CBers I used to hear on the higher sideband channels, I heard very little of the insults I have seen here spewed by some of the pro-coders. Therefore, I'd say that they were at least better behaved than the aforementioned pro-coders. The gratuitous insults to Citizens Band Radio Service users has been in existance since 1958 when the USA authorized its use here (as 'Class D' CB on only 23 27 MHz band channels). That's a time span of 48 years. From its inception CB has NEVER required ANY testing to obtain a CB license. The "license" was pro-forma, a slight revision of the Restricted Class of Radio- telephone Operator license then common to services such as both private and civil aviation pilots. Nearly a half century ago, US radio amateurs developed a distaste for the US government and these new radio service users for: (1) "Taking away" their 11 meter band (little used, sitting below the largest amateur radio allocation on HF); having the audacity in NOT requiring any testing plus intolerant bitching over NOT having to pass any morse code test. That almost- hatred developed into the bigotry seen today. The bigotry grew when about a decade after authorization the offshore electronics industries hit the US market with less-expensive CB transceivers and long-haul truckers took to that service. CB users here soon out-numbered radio amateurs by a large margin. With such a huge base of users, a common patois/lingo/jargon grew that was NOT related to amateur radio but had roots in our state highway patrol police organizations. That lingo became quite different than amateurs' use of theirs, so that reinforced the "different-destroy" attitude of the amateurs' bigotry against CB users. Amateurs like to make fun of CB lingo but don't realize their jargon is amusing to other HF radio service users and the military radio. Amateurs tend to think of themselves as first and foremost without realizing that they never were first nor foremost and were always a minority in radio. Yes, there were assholes on CB, but CB didn't make them that way. By the same token, learning code will not turn an asshole into a nice guy. Morse bigots have the egotistical self-definition of THEIR skills being the only "true" ones for amateur radio. They will rationalize that self-righteous attitude with any number of archaic "reasons" that defy validity for regulatory purposes by radio regulating agencies. In last year's Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on the elimination of morse code testing for US radio amateurs, several Commenters cited the ability to "thwart terrorism" by using morse code! :-) Apparently they had taken a Hollywood motion picture fictional depiction of aliens-from-outer-space-invasion as a documentary of a real event [film title was "Independence Day"]! CB is just a ham radio in the embryo stage, a zygote. The only real difference between CB and ham is the choices of bands and the power of the transmitter, when you really look at things in the most basic sense. I see it differently. Human beings like to communicate. That is evident in the enormous growth of cellular telephony and daily use of that; the US Census Bureau stated two years ago the one in three Americans had a cell phone subscription. That is roughly 100 million users of those tiny full-duplex radio transceivers. Several million CB users exist on USA highways (exact figures unknown as CB has been unlicensed for years, but can be approximated from EIA - Electronic Industry Association - statistics on manufactured and imported electronic equipment). FRS and GMRS unlicensed UHF HTs may exceed the million mark by now. In the maritime radio service private boat owners' VHF radios exceed that of commercial ship owners, VHF voice required on inland waterways and harbors for traffic control. Private boat owners are increasing their HF radio use on deep-water travels unsing HF SSB voice (a few radios marketed for sales to both them and radio amateurs). CB is 48 years old, hardly a youngster/child/teener. It is DIFFERENT than amateur radio on HF, therefore abhored by some radio amateurs stuck in their radio bigotry attitudes put there long ago by their ancestors. If truck drivers have spread a DIFFERENT lingo on CB radio, then they did so out of THEIR need to communicate about THEIR things, not some self- righteous and not-required-by-regulation "traditional" lingo used by hams. Amateurs don't/can't speak to others on HF and are restricted (in the USA) to "non-essential" communications (paraphrased from US regulations). Truck drivers CAN and DO communicate with others on and off the highways freely and with much less of the bigotry displayed by some radio amateurs looking for someone to destroy. Where does manual radiotelegraphy fit into this? It doesn't. There are two ways to communicate when all you have is a transceiver, phone, & CW. All you need for phone is a microphone, All you need for CW is a pencil and paper. If you had to build a transmitter in an emergency, a CW transmitter is simpliest to build. We are after all technical aren't we? We're not just appliance operators. Eliminating CW removes a way we can communicate. A simple way, where all that's required is an ear, a pencil, and paper, and a skill. SC |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
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oups.com: Dee Flint wrote: "Opus-" wrote in message ... CW is as useful to todays Hams as carpentry is to a mechanic. A good thing to learn, and potentially useful, but should not be a barrier. This is where your analogy falls apart. CW is currently very useful to hams. It is in daily use. However, the arguments have already been presented and those with closed minds have rejected them. Pity the morse zealots and their closed minds... :-) Pity the lazy asses that just want to be appliance operators. They care nothing for the integrity of the service. SC |
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trolling right along
wrote: From: on Wed, Sep 6 2006 4:37 am wrote: I would like to talk about the ISSUE of the code test but this arena is NOT the place. That's because of *your* behavior, Len. Oh, oh, M. Superior got her knickers in a twist again and tries to ruler-spank... :-) I have had many civilized, respectful, well-behaved code-test discussions here with Phil Kane, K2ASP and Bill Sohl, K2UNK. The latter is a director of No-Code International, and is one of the staunchest no-code-test advocates around. Yet he makes his points without the name-calling and personal insults that are your stock-in-trade whenever someone disagrees with you. Same for K2ASP. Cut the crap, Jimmy. Quit trying to present yourself as the oh-so-very-SUPERIOR "Mr. Perfect." You are NOT perfect nor an "example of good comportment." You come across as both superior and arrogant...plus the total inflexibility of considering other folks' opinions and viewpoints. This is NOT a thread to discuss OLD HISTORY of US amateur radio as spoon-fed you by the ARRL. The ARRL is NOT a group of "perfect" leaders with "perfect" comportment, either. Jimmy, if you can't stand newsgroup heat, get OUT. It obviously upsets you to be challenged or not recognized as a "newsgroup leader." Both of them have disappeared from rrap. ERROR! Bill and Phil are still in Google archives. Anyone can go look for themselves. I stop back once in a while to see if things have changed. How noble of you. :-) I post a few license numbers here, and you're off on a tear with insults and general adherence to your profile. Poor baby. More evidence of how you can't stand the heat of newsgroup behavior. You crib someone else's stats without giving them credit, then repeat boilerplate paragraphs that are seven yours old, implying that those are "yours" and you get all upset about being called on that? ANYONE can find statistics on the number of licensees and classes and the growth/loss figures. See QRZ and Hamdata for two readily-accessible sources. Tsk, you have serious problems with PAST disagreements. Back at the last restructuring you tried to play with percentages to somehow "prove" that the Technician class belongs in the code-tested group because code zealot Speroni lumped them together in HIS biased-for-code website. That's all in the Google Archives but one has to go back a few years to see it. A transparent attempt Jimmy and several called you out on it. That's also in archives. It's easy to tell when you start losing an argument - that's when you start with the nicknames and personal insults. Being against morse code testing IS a "personal insult" to any Code Zealot. TS for them. :-) Tsk, more evidence of the self-described "superiority" of the Code Zealots. THEY can do NO wrong...such as Robeson, Heil, "Slow-Blow Code" and others, all having maximum-rate code-tested licenses (unknown about Blow Code who won't state his/her callsign). Not to mention the anony-mousies such as "Thomas Edison" or "Not Cocksucker Lloyd," etc. You concentrate on ONE or TWO posters at a time, Jimmy, always denigrating and claiming "error" on the part of no- code-test advocates. You are obviously subjective as hell while claiming "objectivity." Total PR bull****, Jimmy. This forum has degraded to self-important insulters trying to outdo other self-important insulters with heaping gobs of plain filth in print. Whose fault is that? Not mine. Tsk, tsk, did YOU think that sentence was about YOU?!? Good grief, you have a great big EGO problem, superior Jimmy. Go apply your Mother Superior ruler-spanking on THEM if you want to strike a blow for morsemanship. Got the guts? Or do you consider yourself so "superior" that you don't engage in plebian behavior? --- You should work on your PEOPLE SKILLS, Jimmy. Jim still has no comment on Robesin's latest, despicable, escapade. |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
From: Slow Code on Thurs, Sep 7 2006 11:50 pm
" wrote in From: Opus- on Wed, Sep 6 2006 11:05 pm On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:43:31 GMT, Slow Code spake There are two ways to communicate when all you have is a transceiver, phone, & CW. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG... It is voice, radiotelegraphy, data, pulse, right off the bat, plus a few others which you have NO idea they existed for EMERGENCIES. Blowcode, you are stuck on HF ham thinking. So were some other morse zealots and morse bigots in this forum many years ago. Their scenarios were invalid comic-book stuff then and now you've just repeated the same. Deja phooey. On HF you can find some EMERGENCY calling frequencies...but those aren't on ham bands. I recall only two, one for maritime, one for civil aviation over-ocean routes. Aviation has some more but you aren't worth the time to go look them up in the huge Part 2 regulations of Title 47 C.F.R. Both are VOICE. Over or near land the aviation VHF frequency is 121.5 MHz. Military aviation is 243 MHz. Both are VOICE. Airborne transponders (those are transmitter-receivers) has a "squawk" code just for emergencies and, in a pinch, you can push the IDENT button. Transponder output will auto- matically show up on ATCRBS radar displays. The little HTs in military parachute backpacks can do both VOICE and DME/TACAN (the 'pulse' I mentioned). [you probably don't know what DME or TACAN are yet they've been around for a half century. On waterways (not open ocean) there are VHF frequencies for EMERGENCIES. VOICE. Go look those up in Part 2. VHF VOICE is used in the USA in harbors and inland waterways. Need EMERGENCY frequencies on land? Plenty of those, band specific, organization specific, freqs available if you are serious about having to use them. Those frequencies are kept open 24/7 in most areas and have emergency power backup. Three major land PLMRS bands, can you name them? [I didn't think so] Ever hear of a cellular telephone? By now, I'll bet you noticed them. One in three Americans have one. Little 1 GHz HTs with lots of added features with tens of thousands of cell sites to connect to telco. You can punch up nine-one-one on them same as a wireline phone. Nine-one-one is operated 24/7, done by professionals. Cell sites and telephone exchanges all have "floating" emergency power, can remain operating on AC power outage. Think you can call for a paramedic with your little "CW" transceiver, Blowcode? Or a fire truck? Police car? Sorry, Blowcode, they use VOICE and above 30 MHz. Some paramedic ambulances have EKG instruments with radio coupling to a hospital. Some police departments have data terminals IN their cars (LAPD does as do many adjacent incorporated cities here). All you need for phone is a microphone, All you need for CW is a pencil and paper. BWAAAAAHAAAA!!!!! How are you on "straight wire CW" Blowcode? Can you do 'twenty' just rubbing two bare wires together? [remember, you have to scrape OFF the insulation to make contact...] If you had to build a transmitter in an emergency, a CW transmitter is simpliest to build. !!!BUILD?!?!?!??? BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!! Is your QST featuring the "Tuna Tin Two" handy and able to survive a full EMERGENCY environment? Do you have the parts? Do you have a power-less soldering iron? Do you know how to use hand tools? [I don't think so] Once you've cobbled together something that MIGHT work, HOW DO YOU KNOW? Did you have test equipment that survived the EMERGENCY, Blowcode? [I'll bet you think so] How do you know you're on a frequency that you think is good for emergencies? You do "laying on of hands" to miraculously make it work? In this (unspecified) EMERGENCY do you have two functioning hands to use the tools to 'make' this thing? Will you need AC power to run it? Will it work on DC? From where will the electrical power come from? Rub two Handbooks together? Cobbling together a one-tube transmitter MIGHT be possible, provided you have plans, the parts, a suitable tube, and the right values of components (which you seem to think you 'know' exactly?. It might take 24 hours or so...at which time the "emergency" would be over and the 'emergency' victims might be long dead. You can spout bull**** bragging only so far. You've gone too far, Blowcode. You DEMONSTRATE that you can cobble together a simple 'transmitter' out of a pile of parts which do NOT know of ahead of time. SHOW US or someone. Put your money where your big mouth is. Here's what the right-thinking folks do: Have a radio or radios ALREADY available for emergencies, along with a power source, on some 'emergency frequency' that you KNOW WILL BE HEARD. The "CW-saves-the-day" scenario is BS that went out before the GMDSS was activated seven years ago; the USCG is NOT monitoring the 500 KHz "CW" frequency and neither are many other equivalent national maritime aid agencies. A few years ago a gal teenager picked up a call for help on an FRS HT from a stranded mountain climbing team...voice, not "CW", miles away. Made the Washington and Oregon newspapers. [FRS isn't on ham bands, Blowcode, and the gal wasn't a "radio op"] We are after all technical aren't we? You (sure as hell) sound like you can barely wire up a doorbell. With a QST article on it to show you how. We're not just appliance operators. Right...in addition you are an unthinking nuisance. Eliminating CW removes a way we can communicate. Eliminating a code test does NOT "remove its use." If morsemanship is so damn good, it DOESN'T NEED TESTING. Folks will take to it without needing to be tested if its such a wonderful thing. A simple way, where all that's required is an ear, a pencil, and paper, and a skill. Blowcode, you need a SKULL more than a skill...one with a working brain inside it. Try to get a new brain. Quickly. Now go back to reading those comic books from the ARRL. You know, the "Archie" ones that you saved up long ago. |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:50:20 GMT, Slow Code spake
thusly: " wrote in roups.com: Dee Flint wrote: "Opus-" wrote in message ... CW is as useful to todays Hams as carpentry is to a mechanic. A good thing to learn, and potentially useful, but should not be a barrier. This is where your analogy falls apart. CW is currently very useful to hams. It is in daily use. However, the arguments have already been presented and those with closed minds have rejected them. Pity the morse zealots and their closed minds... :-) Pity the lazy asses that just want to be appliance operators. They care nothing for the integrity of the service. Newsflash: ALL radio operators, code or no-code, are "appliance operators" as you colloquially state. A radio is a means to communicate. Knowing code just adds another way to use that radio. |
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