What is the USA waiting for?? Will we be the only country in the world
with a morse code requirement??

Ireland and Singapore have become the latest countries to
remove the requirement for Amateur Radio applicants to pass a Morse code
examination for HF access.

In addition, Switzerland, Belgium, the UK, Germany, Norway, the
Netherlands, Austria, New Zealand and Australia have moved to drop their
Morse requirements.

Yet the USA will surely be the last to join the rest of the world in doing what
is obvious to everyone else.

Jibbs wrote:

In addition, Switzerland, Belgium, the UK, Germany, Norway, the
Netherlands, Austria, New Zealand and Australia have moved to drop their
Morse requirements.


So what? If all these countires jumped off bridges would that mean we
would be nuts for not jump too? What these counties do are their own
business and who wants to be put in the same class as Germany anyway!


Yet the USA will surely be the last to join the rest of the world in doing what
is obvious to everyone else.


Oh I hope not, I hope the USA never joins the rest of the world. We
don't need a 80, 40, 20, and 15 meter CB bands. God forbid that we have
something happen here far worse than 9/11 which renders Voice
communications useless and we need to go back to basices. After all its
a lot easier to build a CW rig than a voice rig in the event of a
national emergency. Once you stop teaching/learning the basics then
you'll gradully become a less educated national. Just look at workers
in McDonalds, when the computer quits working they can't make sales.....

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:20:10 -0400, GeorgeF in rec.radio.scanner -
om :

Yet the USA will surely be the last to join the rest of the world in doing what
is obvious to everyone else.



Oh I hope not, I hope the USA never joins the rest of the world. We
don't need a 80, 40, 20, and 15 meter CB bands. God forbid that we have
something happen here far worse than 9/11 which renders Voice
communications useless and we need to go back to basices.

Like terrorists stab everyone who has a radio transmitter in the throat with a pen,
or even worse? Perhaps a laryngitis epidemic?

After all its a lot easier to build a CW rig than a voice rig in the event of a
national emergency.

That is why I have a 50,000 volt spark gap rig in storage. LOL

Once you stop teaching/learning the basics then
you'll gradully become a less educated national. Just look at workers
in McDonalds, when the computer quits working they can't make sales.....

Well, considering McDonalds isn't set up for paper & pen transactions I would
say that is understandable. How does your ebay business do when your computer
takes a ****?

wrote:


Well, considering McDonalds isn't set up for paper & pen transactions I would
say that is understandable. How does your ebay business do when your computer
takes a ****?

I do very well because I still (and always will) do a consider amount of
business and sales via more traditional marketing means such as mail and
newspaper/magzine advertising.

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com
http://www.AuctionWholesaler.com (since edna so badly wants to bring it up)

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:05:38 -0400, GeorgeF in rec.radio.scanner -
om :



wrote:


Well, considering McDonalds isn't set up for paper & pen transactions I would
say that is understandable. How does your ebay business do when your computer
takes a ****?

I do very well because I still (and always will) do a consider amount of
business and sales via more traditional marketing means such as mail and
newspaper/magzine advertising.

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com
http://www.AuctionWholesaler.com (since edna so badly wants to bring it up)

Blah blah blah, that is all we ever hear from you.

LMAO@U HAhaHAAHAH

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Haw haw haw, sell alot of them there grandfather clocks on ebay?
Only $20 to join your program. I'd be surprised if you have even sold
the first 'dealership".
You are a joke little man. Thanks for the laugh!

Edna, you seem to delight in attacking George, a person who has done more
for the scanner hobby than 99% of the folks on here.

What have you done except drop in your vitriolic comments in a "drive by" of
words.

Get a life, and come back when you have contributed something positive to
the hobby!

wrote in message
...

Blah blah blah, that is all we ever hear from you.

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:38:24 -0400, "w4jle" W4JLE(remove this to in rec.radio.scanner - :

Edna, you seem to delight in attacking George, a person who has done more
for the scanner hobby than 99% of the folks on here.

LOL, I see how he helps here. You a big milair fan are ya?

What have you done except drop in your vitriolic comments in a "drive by" of
words.

Made you mad?

Get a life, and come back when you have contributed something positive to
the hobby!

Will do!


wrote in message
.. .

Blah blah blah, that is all we ever hear from you.

So you're a snail mail spammer. An honorable profession. Right up there with
lawyers.


"GeorgeF" wrote in message
news:3F7B41A2.3010502@licensed4funREMOVEBEFOREFLIG HT.com...



I do very well because I still (and always will) do a consider amount of
business and sales via more traditional marketing means such as mail and
newspaper/magzine advertising.

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com
http://www.AuctionWholesaler.com (since edna so badly wants to bring it
up)

Oh I hope not, I hope the USA never joins the rest of the world. We
don't need a 80, 40, 20, and 15 meter CB bands. God forbid that we have
something happen here far worse than 9/11 which renders Voice
communications useless and we need to go back to basices.

Like terrorists stab everyone who has a radio transmitter in the throat with a pen,
or even worse? Perhaps a laryngitis epidemic?

Or don't forget the time you will be stranded at the north pole with nothing in sight for miles but a phone booth
with a telephone where the microphone is missing and you have to use the touch tone pad to send a message in morse
code with! I love that one. Always some sort of ridiculous situation that would never happen to try and come
up with an instance where morse code could somehow be used. But then don't forget when you use that phone, the
operator, police, or whoever you call will not understand morse code, and that is the most important point everyone
on that demented side keeps forgetting.

The Emergency Broadcast System never sent messages or tests in morse code, but English voice. The public would
never understand it otherwise.

Commercials and spam are always in plain English so the message can reach as many people as possible, not be
limited to the two people who know morse code. Note how only idiots post binaries on newsgroups in yenc, but
spammers don't, because they want EVERYONE to be able to decode and view the spam, not just two people.

After all its a lot easier to build a CW rig than a voice rig in the event of a
national emergency.

That is why I have a 50,000 volt spark gap rig in storage. LOL\

In a national emergency, people are not suddenly going to understand morse code, so that would be worthless unless
you want to try and communicate with some 80 year old ham radio operator that is a hundred miles away. I would
rather reach some emergency agency personnel that are not going to know morse code, but spent time learning
important stuff instead that will now be useful in an emergency.

Once you stop teaching/learning the basics then
you'll gradully become a less educated national. Just look at workers
in McDonalds, when the computer quits working they can't make sales.....

Well, considering McDonalds isn't set up for paper & pen transactions I would
say that is understandable. How does your ebay business do when your computer
takes a ****?

In an emergency, McDonalds, Ebay and Morse Code will be the last things anyone is going to worry about.

Jeff Renkin wrote:

Oh I hope not, I hope the USA never joins the rest of the world. We
don't need a 80, 40, 20, and 15 meter CB bands. God forbid that we have
something happen here far worse than 9/11 which renders Voice
communications useless and we need to go back to basices.

Like terrorists stab everyone who has a radio transmitter in the throat with a pen,
or even worse? Perhaps a laryngitis epidemic?

Or don't forget the time you will be stranded at the north pole with nothing in sight for miles but a phone booth
with a telephone where the microphone is missing and you have to use the touch tone pad to send a message in morse
code with! I love that one. Always some sort of ridiculous situation that would never happen to try and come
up with an instance where morse code could somehow be used. But then don't forget when you use that phone, the
operator, police, or whoever you call will not understand morse code, and that is the most important point everyone
on that demented side keeps forgetting.

The Emergency Broadcast System never sent messages or tests in morse code, but English voice. The public would
never understand it otherwise.

Commercials and spam are always in plain English so the message can reach as many people as possible, not be
limited to the two people who know morse code. Note how only idiots post binaries on newsgroups in yenc, but
spammers don't, because they want EVERYONE to be able to decode and view the spam, not just two people.

After all its a lot easier to build a CW rig than a voice rig in the event of a
national emergency.

That is why I have a 50,000 volt spark gap rig in storage. LOL\

In a national emergency, people are not suddenly going to understand morse code, so that would be worthless unless
you want to try and communicate with some 80 year old ham radio operator that is a hundred miles away. I would
rather reach some emergency agency personnel that are not going to know morse code, but spent time learning
important stuff instead that will now be useful in an emergency.

Once you stop teaching/learning the basics then
you'll gradully become a less educated national. Just look at workers
in McDonalds, when the computer quits working they can't make sales.....

Well, considering McDonalds isn't set up for paper & pen transactions I would
say that is understandable. How does your ebay business do when your computer
takes a ****?

In an emergency, McDonalds, Ebay and Morse Code will be the last things anyone is going to worry about.

Mommy, Mommy, make that mean 'ol FCC man give me a license.... Mommy, I cain't learn the code, I have ADD... Mommy,
Mommy please give me more Ritalin....

On and on it goes, there are those who can, and those who can't. Next you'll be bitching about the requirements to get
into medical school... to stringent for ya? Too bad.