Caitlyn;
You should have responded to Jeff's comments in private rather than send
this crap to the whole list. But since you did my comments below will have
to take the same route.
-----Original Message-----
From: Caitlyn Martin [mailto:caitlyn@netferrets.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 10:13 AM
To: tentec@contesting.com
\Hi, Jeff,
>You know, if all the people who didn't like CW (myself included) left, that
>would be, oh... 80% of the ham community.
WRONG! Please don't present unsubstantiated data. You loose credibility.
>You'd have no bands left in nothing flat.
WRONG again!
>Oh, and I am not too lazy. I worked hard to pass my 13 WPM
>on the *fourth* try some years ago.
Apparently you don't have good study habits. Four tries? One should be
sufficient. Learning CW is like learning another language or like walking
and chewing gum at the same time.
>The theory tests were easy by comparison, including the Advanced.
Yes, I do agree with you on this point. All of the written tests are far
too easy. Any slightly literate person can memorize the answers and pass.
>Do not blast the no-code techs. They are over 50% of the ham ranks, last I
>checked. They are the majority.
They are 50% or so of the ham population only because it is a very easy way
to get a ham license (or should we say a "super CB" license).
>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.
Your comments above are far too absurd to respond to.
>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.
Check your facts, percentages, and statistics. It might also be that the
"super CB" or Tech minus craze is over.
>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.
But they haven't been doing a very good job of it in recent years. Maybe
they too are getting soft and lazy.
>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.
Gee, maybe we should stop teaching history in our schools and Universities
too.
You would probably be in favor of no-test driver licenses, or college
degrees just for the asking.
Bitch! Bitch! Bitch! That seems to be most of what we have heard from you
on this list?
Reid, K7YX
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