[CW] Novice Bands are still there.

[Pedro J. Santa]

Well, fellow dinos; it seems our walnut sized brains succumbed to the 
mammals and those asteroids that had been predicted for so long.  Let's not 
pretend the end (of the hobby as we knew it) isn't near--it's been here for 
quite a while now...

Wireless worldwide communications (and CW) among nongovernmentally-salaried 
operators will now stay, at best,  as a "romantic" pastime".  Well, that may 
well be enough and "cool" for me, as long as I'm not left behind as "el 
ultimo romantico del mundo"..  But I do tell you:  those companies who 
thought were advancing their interests by discouraging skills and proficieny 
(with the ARRL's shameful endorsement)  would have desisted from their 
campaigns if they had known better.  I, for one, do not plan to invest any 
more money in rigs and aluminum that will surely be trashed sooner than 
later...

73 Pedro KP3X..


----- Original Message -----
From: "David J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
To: "John Geiger" <ne0p at lcisp.com>; <CW at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 2:13
Subject: Re: [CW] Novice Bands are still the


> "John Geiger" <ne0p at lcisp.com> said:
>
> I look back on my novice days with fond rememberances.  Ham radio was 
> really
> a fraternity back then.  <SNIP>
>
> I also don't seem to remember whining and crying about why did I have to
> increase my code speed to get my general, but then maybe my memory is
> selective.
>
> Hello John,
>
> You didn't hear any whining and crying about Morse Code requirements back 
> in
> the Novice days because all hams had to take a "real" code test.
>
> Back then you had to copy one minute solid out of five and send for one
> minute correctly out of five.
>
> So you basically had to "know code" then.
>
> I hear Extra class hams - even those licensed in the late 1980s when the
> test had been changed to multiple choice, and no sending test who can't 
> copy
> code at 20 wpm.  They guess at it.
>
> It WAS refreshing to know the "other fellow" could receive by hand and
> transmit by hand the code speed for which he obtained his license.
>
> What a refreshing idea!
>
> v73
> David Ring N1EA
>
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