[CW] Dissing the ARRL

[John Rippey]

>Sorry, but no.  It's not about a bunch of CW ops "wanting a federal
>bailout".  It's about a bunch of ops concerned about the lowering of
>standards to the point where having an Amateur Radio license won't mean
>anything, anymore.
>
>73 de Larry W2LJ


Larry, et al:

1. Many thanks for the civil tone of yours and others' responses to an 
admittedly provocative posting.

2. I'm no educator, but I assume there are ways to structure tests so as to 
make them "meaningful" in the progression of radio amateur licensing, with 
or without a mandatory Morse code element.

3.  I would rather see those of us who love CW (my father was a railroad 
telegrapher--Continental Morse with a sounder) make proselytizing our 
favorite mode the focus of our energies rather than focusing, as now, on 
basically a political outcome.  Political outcomes, with certain rare 
exceptions (Philadelphia 1789), usually are unsatisfactory to all 
concerned.

73,
John, W3ULS