On 12 Jun 2006 16:23:21 -0700, "an_old_friend"
wrote:

beter would be to start a letter like the enclosed beloow (in the
quoted usenet text) is the effort of variuous persons with the ARS
deteremined to Kill offthe valuable resuource to this that is Amateur
(or Ham) radio Hams do step up when they to the disater that turned out
to possiblity num one the list of of 101 things that can go wrong

But they don't rely of CW (Morse encoded OnOffKeyed signals to tit

they use whatis a at hand be it Voice Cw Rtty (and other digtial based
modes) this the ARS and it stands now being slowly strangled by the
Luddities in its midst with the willing assitastance of the FCC in
draging their heel in issue the R&O that will implement it most recent
NPRM o5-235I believe on restructuringthe ARS) their was nothing new in
the coments some folks thik Morse Code Testing should stay but they
could only muster the same tired arguement that the Fcc has already
stated are not good enough

Urge the FCC to do it job and modernize the ARs before it is too late
and more lives are lost that could have been saved if only the FCC had
acted in a timely manner

Are you really this illiterate????