[CW] Leave no ham behind

Thu Jul 28 00:59:03 EDT 2005

Hans,

I'd be disappointed if you wrote this.  But the person who wrote this is 
terribly misinformed.

Of all the people on the local repeaters who welcomed the new comers over 
the years, it is the CW operators who did so.

Of all the people at the local ham clubs I belong to who run "build it 
yourself" classes - it is the CW operators.

Who ever wrote this compared CW operators to low life.  George Rodgers was 
low life.  He was also one of my profession, and he disgraced my profession 
by what he did.

If you're saying that you wrote this, you should be ashamed of yourself. 
You're saying that "CW operators" killed the hobby.  As a CW operator (and 
you are too) - this is offensive.

For the record - I didn't compare you to a scoundrel and murderer!  But 
Radio Officer Rodgers was - and he sure was a scoundrel.  He was a disgrace 
on CW operators, just like this bit of prose is a disgrace to CW operators.

The point was:  Who ever wrote this is a low life and it is a terrible slur 
on CW operators.  Most of the great names in Amateur Radio were CW 
operators - do THEY deserve these words?

Where did you get this?  Don't tell me you wrote this?  Who ever wrote this 
has spit in the face of every CW operator I've ever known.

73

David N1EA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K0HB " <k-zero-hb at earthlink.net>
To: "David J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>; "CW Reflector" 
<cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Leave no ham behind

Damn, Dave, I've never been compared to a murderer before.

My respect for you just took a major hit.

Hans

> [Original Message]
> From: David J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net>
> To: <k-zero-hb at earthlink.net>; <CW at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 7/28/2005 3:35:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [CW] Leave no ham behind
>
> I wonder who was the author of such trash.
>
> Hans, I know you've been an advocate of "No Code" for a while - and
you're a
> talented CW operator.  You are entitled to your opinion, but where does
this
> come from?  Is it yours?  If it is it is putrid.
>
> I know of no CW operator who would act so, although there probably is one
> who would shame me and my kind, just as Radio Officer Rodgers shamed me
and
> my kind for many years after he set the fire on the "Morrow Castle" and
let
> it burn as he looked like the hero sending an SOS in a radio shack where
he
> had to lift his feet to avoid being burnt.  Eventually he was found out
> after a few more arsons and murders.
>
> The "hero" later becomes the "scoundrel" and murderer of those that died
on
> that ship.
>
> Who is author of this fiction - or is the author someone who prefers to
> hide, just as R/O Rodgers hid for many years?
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "K0HB " <k-zero-hb at earthlink.net>
> To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:33 PM
> Subject: RE: [CW] Leave no ham behind
>
>
>
>
>           --   THE LAST AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR   -- 
>
>
>      It was a warm sunny day, with just a slight breeze.  Joe
> squinted at the top of his tower, admiring the five-element 20
> meter monobander he had built the previous winter.  It was an
> imposing sight, yet had never been used.
>
>      Yes, never been used, because you see, Joe was the last ham.
>
>      Joe never intended to be the last ham, but it worked out
> that way.  He thought back to how it had all started in the 80's
> when the FCC created the no-code Tech license.  Joe considered
> that action the biggest blunder any government agency had ever
> perpetrated on the citizens of the United States of America.
>
>      "Just think of it," Joe had remarked, "an amateur radio
> license with no Morse code requirements!  It will mean ruin for
> us all!"  Joe ignored the fact that the no-code license brought
> new blood into the hobby after the amateur ranks had been
> shrinking for many years.  He refused to notice that after the
> FCC created this new license category, the number of active hams
> increased at a dizzying rate.
>
>      Joe hated no-code hams.  He wouldn't accept the no-code
> license as just another way of entering Amateur ranks, and
> refused to acknowledge that many no-coders upgrade to higher-
> class licenses.  No explanation was good enough for Joe.
>
>      Joe and some like-minded cronies hung out on the local
> repeater, where they expounded at length their belief that the
> new hams are somehow less than human.  They even suggested that
> the way to clean up the ham bands was to get rid of all 2-by-3
> calls.  They joked that everyone ought to own a no-code Tech.
> When new operators dared talk to Joe or his buddies, they found
> themselves humbled, scolded, and scorned.
>
>      In his zeal to control "his" airwaves, Joe monitored the
> local repeater with a stop-watch, to make sure interlopers
> "ID'ed" on time.  If they went a little over, he gave them a
> tongue-lashing.  He even harassed them when they operated
> perfectly, just to make sure they knew they weren't welcome.
>
>      Of course, Joe never gave his callsign when he did this.  He
> regarded himself not as a jammer, but as a radio cop -- keeping
> the ham bands pure.  Soon others joined Joe's cause.  After all,
> "The new no-coders made two meters sound like CB!"
>
>      Slowly at first, then at a faster and faster rate, newcomers
> dropped out of the local clubs, then off the air completely.  Joe
> was ecstatic.  It was working; he was saving the airwaves.
>
>      The number of active hams dropped to far fewer than when he
> started.  He figured only the "real hams" were left, so he didn't
> mind when the Callbook shrunk to the size of a comic book.  But
> with so few hams, the political power of Amateur Radio
> diminished.  Soon ham spectrum shrunk, too.
>
>      That didn't bother Joe; he cared only about 2 and 20 meters.
> He thought it was funny when the FCC auctioned many VHF and UHF
> bands, "those no-coder hangouts," to commercial interests.
>
>      Finally, citing "no further need for an Amateur
> license category," the FCC stopped issuing new licenses.  Before
> long, Joe and his buddies were the only hams left.  But that was
> fine.  After all, they all got their licenses back when hams took
> tests at FCC offices, and not at one of those VEC jokes that
> allowed an applicant to take a test here or there.
>
>      Joe and his cronies spent long hours ragchewing on 20,
> bragging about how good things were.  Occasionally they paused,
> but only to note when one of their clan became a "silent key."
>
>      Then, one day, Joe called CQ on twenty meters and got no
> reply.  He tried again the next day with the same result.  He
> kept trying for a week, but no one ever came back to him.
> Finally, he called one of his friends on the twisted pair, to set
> up a contact.  But, an elderly-sounding lady informed him
> that his friend was no longer among the living.
>
>      Joe paged through his old, dog-eared Callbook.  But he
> couldn't find a single listing of anyone he had worked recently.
> That's when he realized he was the only one left.
>
>      Joe had just started back toward the house when he suddenly
> tired.  He at down to rest on the grass.  He felt a squeezing
> pain in his chest, and his left arm ached.  He lay back.
>
>      His antenna, and clouds drifting by above it, were the last
> things he saw.  But Joe and his like-minded friends had lived
> long enough to accomplish their goal;
>
>                 THEY HAD CLEANED UP THE AIRWAVES!
>
>
>
>
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