Amen Caity... I've been a ham for less than a year now, and if I had more
people like Jeff telling me that I wasn't a "real" ham instead of the wealth
of people that have helped and encouraged me now, I may not be a ham now.
If you want to work CW only, that's great... I love CW... But I'm also a
college student, a member of the Corps of Cadets here at Virginia Tech, and
NROTC, meaning that I don't have a lot of time to spend on myself, even less
for ham radio. But I'm looking forward to this next week I have off,
hopefully polish up the 13 WPM code before my general theory CSCE expires
here in less than a month. Laziness will not kill ham radio. Neither will
a lack of CW. But the elitist "us-them" mentality will cause problems when
people want our spectrum space.
My newbie's $0.02...
Hope to start working some of you on the air, real soon.......
73,
Ryan, KB3DGF/4
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Ryan M. Stavely
Kilo Battery, VTCC
212 Monteith Hall
Amateur Radio Station KB3DGF
ICQ UIN #3340108
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tentec@contesting.com [mailto:owner-tentec@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Caitlyn Martin
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 13:13
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] TenTec RX-320 S-meter question.
>
>
>
> Hi, Jeff,
>
> > and just change
> > frequency or go back to CW where the real hams are. (Yes this is a stab
> > at the No-class tech's, if your so lazy not to learn CW then
> find another
> > hobby and leave us alone.)
>
> You know, if all the people who didn't like CW (myself included)
> left, that
> would be, oh... 80% of the ham community. You'd have no bands left in
> nothing flat. Oh, and I am not too lazy. I worked hard to pass my 13 WPM
> on the *fourth* try some years ago. The theory tests were easy by
> comparison, including the Advanced.
>
> Do not blast the no-code techs. They are over 50% of the ham
> ranks, last I
> checked. They are the majority. They are more welcome to me
> than arrogant
> know-it-alls like you who want to tell me I am not a real ham because I do
> not and will not work an archaic, historical mode like CW. Morse is
> wonderful for those who enjoy it, and I understand that it *was* a vital
> means of communication in the not too distant past, but that was then and
> this is now.
>
> The best way to destroy this hobby is to drive people away. In case you
> didn't read the FCC numbers last year (the only numbers that matter), for
> the very first time in history the number of licensed hams declined. Oh,
> not by much, but the decline is real.
>
> Oh, and the FCC is about to restructure ham radio licensing. We
> will have a
> report-and-order shortly. CW will be deemphasized, and the required code
> speed for the top license won't be 20 WPM any more. It won't
> even be 13, if
> my sources are correct. I expect that when the ITU does away with the
> international requirement for CW, which will eventually happen,
> so will the
> FCC.
>
> You can gripe about it all you want, but you do not decide who is
> and is not
> a ham, or even a "real" ham. The FCC does.
> >
> > Thank you, I do feel better now!
>
> So do I. Much, much better. It's been a while since I told one of you
> dinosaurs off after you went and insulted the majority of the ham
> community.
> Heck, I felt insulted, too. Oh, and for the older gentlemen on the list,
> dinosaur refers to an attitude, not age. IMHO, you can be
> mentally young at
> 95, and a dinosaur and live in the past at 20, and I, for one, appreciate
> some of the older generation who elmered me along.
>
> 73,
> Caity
> KU4QD
> (who was a General before there was such a thing as a No-Code Tech)
>
> P.S.: Flames in response will be filed on my machine at home under
> /dev/null
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