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February 13th 07, 06:20 PM
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ARRL Now Only Wants No Code Hams - Holding Midnight Exams
On 12 Feb 2007 21:28:11 -0800, "
wrote: +++On Feb 12, 4:35?pm, "Stefan Wolfe" wrote: +++ "policy-ham" wrote in message +++ +++ oups.com... +++ +++ Found on qrz.com. he ARRL now only wants only no code hams. And as +++ for the rest of us? +++ +++ Not true what you say about the ARRL. Amateur radio is only as good as the +++ effort you put into it. If you can't do code, you cannot communicate with a +++ huge subset of the amateur population. That is a fact. You never will be +++ able to so until your learn code, FCC requirement or no FCC requirement. +++ There is some DX you will never get, some countries you may never contact, +++ many people you will never meet. +++ +++ Some no-coders sound like the gay rights lobby: They seem to be trying to +++ make no-code the "norm". "I want you to think I am normal". "I am as just +++ good as you, I can do HF now, I can be a real 'Ham'". (Gays can get +++ "married"). True by regulation, but not really in practice. +++ +++ In the foreseeable future you will never truly be a ham until you can QSO in +++ code; you will only hold a piece of paper authorizing you to communicate on +++ HF. Don't shoot the messanger. Don't bother disagreeing with me; it is the +++ large subset of the amateur base that you have to convince and, +++ unfortunately, that will take a while to change IF it ever does change. When +++ people are sick of SSB QRM or we cannot QSO by voice due to conditions, we +++ can simply move to the CW sub-bands and you are left "holding the mike". +++ +++ As Walter Cronkite used to say. "That's the way it is..." February 23, 2007. +++ +++ Hello? This is February 12, 2007. FACTUAL ERROR!!! +++ +++ There's one little problem, "Stefan." Isn't ANY "Stefan Wolfe" +++ in the FCC CORES database. The best that can be found +++ are two Steven Wolfes: +++ +++ Steven H. Wolfe, KC4UZW, Tech, FRN 0004408340 +++ Steven B. Wolfe, KC9KTN, Tech, FRN 0016067183 +++ +++ www.qrz.com confirms that. +++ +++ The only "CW sub-bands" that Techs have is a small +++ sliver on the bottom of two VHF ham bands. Of course, +++ all other classes can use those. shrug So? +++ +++ +++ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Only giving back which was taken away. In a land far far away and along time ago Techs had some CW priviledge on 2 and 6 meter CW if my senile memory has not forgotten me. james |
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