On Feb 11, 10:26 pm, james wrote:
On 11 Feb 2007 13:45:13 -0800, "policy-ham"
wrote:

+++Found on qrz.com. The ARRL now only wants only no code hams. And as
+++for the rest of us?

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Just think of it this way, you know more than they will by knowing how
to use Morse Code at any speed. Now you hae a conversation with some
otehr Ham that knows CW and the newbies wont understand what your
talking about. Think of it as a benefit, not as disadvantage.

james

I disagree. Not know more. Just know different. Other people have said
there hasn't been any new improvements in ham radio technology in
decades.

The morse code requirement was probably holding them back.

Look at other industries. The latest improvements made were made by
people not familiar with the old technology, but familiar with the
newer technology.

In the computer industry, most of the recent improvements have been
made by people not familiar with the punch card sysyem.

If they were still required to learn and use the punch-card system,
they wouldn't have as much time to study all the newer technologies
and the improvements either wouldn't have gotten made at all, or at
least not as fast.

They would still bee stuck uing the old very slow computers that use
punch cards.

The same goes for a lot of other industries, also.

Although with other things instead of computers and punch cards.