Slow Code wrote:

We dare not let Lenny and the rest of the dumb-it-down crowd win.

SC

SC:

Sometimes I am convinced that you are an excellent "satire comedian."
Other times, you have me convinced you are for real. Sometimes you have
me busting a gut and laughing until tears come, other times you yank my
heart-stings in pity.

Take this last post of your, it can be viewed as tongue-in-cheek satire,
or, it can be viewed as insane rant.

Certainly you cannot place much importance on CW. Amateurs have a real
purpose, to expand radio on ALL frontiers. Help in the community, help
in educating the youth in radio, help in disasters, help in developing
techniques, equip., theory development, etc. (the list really goes
on-and-on here)

Probably the least important aspects of all this is rag chewing,
contesting, favoritism of individuals and groups, etc. They are fun for
some and amateur radio has a place for these activities, but these are
self-serving and we must be careful least amateurs on a whole end up
being judged on such self-serving behaviors. However, when we are
taking from amateur radio for our own personal goals, likes and
entertainment we are NOT giving. Or, put simply, I can easily imagine
Einstein, Tesla, De Forest, Bell, etc. having a great interest in radio,
however, I am in doubt as to them getting excited about having to learn
morse to obtain the license.

So, when you go crying "the sky is falling" over amateur radio
progressing and dropping an ancient tradition of morse testing, how can
any logical mind view you as NOT being self-serving, how can anyone take
you seriously at all? Are you a con man attempting to sell us the idea
that you really see great benefit in CW? That CW is a major part of
radio in 2006? Come on man, anyone crying such nonsense is going to be
called on those cons schemes immediately.

You see CW as being a real barrier, something that many who desperately
want to become amateurs will avoid and by so avoiding fail to obtain an
amateur license. Certainly you cannot really believe that; you can see
how people would view you as deranged if you held such views, can't you?
If someone really wants an amateur license, it they are so devoted to
hero worship of amateurs as your were--they will end up with that
license in their back pocket--even some uneducated and mentally
challenged person from the back swamps of DumbBuck Egypt can learn to
tap that code if he/she is driven.

I think as a young man, you viewed amateurs in some form of hero
worship. I think you viewed them as larger than life. I am afraid that
once you obtained your license, these fantasies did not fade. Indeed,
you wove these fantasies into your ego and your ego became dependent on
your amateur license hanging on your wall. You recognized that if a
very large number of people had amateur licenses (say the same number
who hold fishing licenses or drivers licenses or contracting licenses,
etc.) your feeling of being "special" would go away. So, you began to
plot. You began to find ways you felt would stop people from getting
licenses and get behind those ideas and push them and sell them. You
certainly knew there were other such individuals as yourself out there
and they would come to your aid. Indeed, I do not even think you were
the one to come up with the original idea, I think that would have been
beyond you. Someone else came up with the idea, you just jumped on
his/her bandwagon.

So, now we arrive here. And, you are indeed correct, CW does make some
shy away from amateur radio. The reward of having an amateur license is
just not big enough for them to learn a set of dits and dahs to send
messages with, frankly, I see Einstein never bothered. I guess you look
at this as a "winning" situation, I do not. I look at it as a evil
self-centered plan which you and others are engaged in to limit amateur
radio, and it just kind-of-got-that-way because no one has taken you to
task.

I know of no good reasons to maintain any CW requirement in amateur
testing. Even learning it for historical reasons does not justify the
expenditure of time and effort it requires just to purchase a radio, buy
an antenna and grab up a mic (and that is exactly what the large
majority of amateurs are today, code tapping appliance users.)

In all your rants I see no real reasons for maintaining the CW
requirement. In fact, when you are hard pressed and under attack, you
admit to having your self-centered self at the core of you manipulations.


If you think I hate you, I do not. If you think I see you as the most
evil person I have ever conversed with, I do not--I have some neighbors
much worse. I just don't understand you. And, why that is, is because
no one here is attempting to "win" by eliminating morse. We are
attempting to win by making amateur radio enticing enough to fill our
ranks with new bright minds, something YOU SHOULD place much more
importance on. Indeed, CW pales in comparison when viewed side-by-side.

Let me leave you with one important "vision" to dwell upon. Next time
you are a social event, a cocktail party, a civic function, etc. and you
find someone, or some group who is really, really impressed with you
being an amateur radio operator--then, right at that time, take a
really, really good look at those people who are so all impressed and
tell me if it really matters that you impress "those people?" If you
say yes, you and I don't even live in the same universe.

Regards,
JS