[CW] Inspiration

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Now that reminds me of the kids - including myself - when we got into ham
radio.  Everyone of the group passed the code test at 5 wpm, and all the
ones who were really interested anyway continued.  I could have told you the
ones who didn't get their General licenses.  They told us, "Uh, I guess I
really didn't want to do radio, 'cuz I never got on the air once."  No try,
no fly!

I don't see where the problem is.  I never met anyone who couldn't do morse
code - not at classes, not at the classes I taught, and one fellow that
taught for many many years - Katashi Nose - (the original) KH6IJ - also
never found ANYONE who couldn't learn code.

I've met people who tell me they "don't want to learn it", "don't practice",
and so forth.

ALL those people who were MOTIVATED (usually by the instructors JOY of doing
it) learned and they learned quickly.  The ones who didn't try, just left.

There is one local here in Massachusetts who is out spoken about his anti-CW
stance.  He says "I can't learn code." - I've offered (and others have) to
teach him and give him lessons.  He declines instruction.

What do you do for these people?  I can't learn, but I won't let you teach
me?

Sounds like a good way to prove "I can't do it" because that's the way you
want it.

73

David Ring
N1EA
----- Original Message -----
From: "n3drk" <n3drk@triad.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:06 PM
Subject: [CW] Inspiration


> All the complainers out to go to this website and read this little guys
> attitude and motivation on learning the code. They may learn something.
>
> http://home.inu.net/n5nu/profile.htm
>
> 73's
> john