[CW] Dissing the ARRL

Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:45:53 -0600

Absolutely.  See my earlier posting regarding the increasing size of the
question pools, and the generation of "random" tests.

Jay
AD5PE
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Rippey" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:01 PM
Subject: [CW] Dissing the ARRL

>
> >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
>
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