WA3MKB,
Nice post and but I have to disagree with you on one point. You state that
the amateur radio operators who failed to write the FCC unintentionally
allowed the removal of the requirement of Morse Code from all license class
examinations is inaccurate. The truth of the matter is the FCC had an agenda
and no matter if 99% of operators expressed their opinion of retaining the
Morse Code requirement it would not have mattered. Look at the route other
countries throughout the world have gone. One does not have to look past
Washington to see the lack of leadership in these matters. Case in
point-BPL.
Also it is my opinion, and please note the word opinion, that within 20
years there will be no examinations whatsoever. Just pay your 20 dollars
with your completed application. If these guys can push through no code then
it makes everything else much easier. Just look at the VEC examinations and
how much of a joke they are. A person can memorize the answers in 3 weeks
and pass the Extra test with flying colors. I know people who have done it
but that will also be a bygone era.
73
john-n4dsp
----- Original Message -----
From: <d.e.warnick@comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM]
> Thank you KC4ATU. You have echoed the feelings of thousands. Every amateur
> operator who did not want to see the code dropped, but who did not write
> the FCC, at the urging of a very hard working ARRL, has unintentionally
> allowed this to happen. We could not have changed it anyway, but our
> voices should have been heard.
> So what can we do now? Continue to operate CW as we have in the past.
> Enjoy it and show the world that it is still a viable force in our
> communications.
> That's it. Let's focus our energies in the positive side of things. The
> ARRL has done a heck of a lot to keep us informed of what is happening and
> to enable us to operate at all
>
> WA3MKB
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "bill rowlett" <c4atu@hotmail.com>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> >From: "AD5VJ Bob"
>> >
>> > So tell me something:
>> >
>> >I am a member of many many lists on Yahoo and have not caught up reading
>> >all of them today because of this news that the ARRL
>> >dropped the ball on Amateur Radio again.
>> >
>> >Not one response that I read so far, was in favor of this move on any of
>> >those lists.
>> >
>> >So my question is:
>> >How about we form a League of some kind that will protect and represent
>> >our
>> >interests as LICENSED Amateur Radio Operators?
>> >
>> >Sounds like the unlicensed folks have their League already, we just pay
>> >for
>> >it annually.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> This has been coming for many years. You and I have had ample time to yet
>> the FCC know how we feal about it. The international community has gone
>> this
>> route and now so do we. The ARRL was not behind a total elimination. They
>> wanted to retain it for Extra Class, so get off the lets bash the ARRL.
>> They
>> are not correct all the time and neither are you or me, so cool it with
>> the
>> bashing, grow up.
>>
>> When CW was droped from the shipping industry and from the military, the
>> hand writing was on the wall. Freight trains are hard to stop
>>
>> What now, USE it, be EXCITED about it, and TEACH it. It will last as a
>> mode
>> of operation, AM is still here.
>>
>>
>> 73, KC4ATU
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
>> > > [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Shock
>> > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 9:55 PM
>> > > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
>> > > Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM]
>> > >
>> > > what a shame
>> > >
>> > > On 12/15/06, Ken N9VV wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Looks like it is for real!
>> > > > http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269012A1.pdf
>> > > > de ken n9vv (old CW Dinosaur)
>> > > >
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