[CW] Re: CW Digest, Vol 15, Issue 20

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Hans,

What it generalizes about CW operators is not even true in the remotest 
sense.  I've never heard any stories even remotely true concerning this 
except perhaps from the trolls on QRZ.com.

If you read a story about this based on something that you hold near and 
dear - you'd be horrified (I hope).

It just isn't true, and I can't imagine your motivation in posting it here.

It would be like my posting something that said "all Jews have horns" (which 
they don't, not even one of them), or something equally horrific about other 
people or group.

What was your motive in posting it here?  It would have been much more 
effective if you addressed something like:

"I don't like the way newcomers are greeted"... than to suggest that CW 
operators are responsible for the "down fall" of amateur radio.

Far from it, I think - the people who are most cooperative towards newcomers 
in the clubs I belong to are all CW operators.

My own personal feeling (and it isn't Gospel) is that the CW operators in 
this club love radio more.

There is one phone man in the club who is very helpful - but guess what he 
does?  (Funny!) He teaches the CW course.

If the point of the story wasn't to villify CW operators, I must have missed 
the point of the story - but I've read it several times - and it looks very 
much to me that the exact point was that this CW operator was responsible 
for killing ham radio - he was the only one left.

Of course, perhaps the story would not be as "good" if you had substited "AM 
Operator" - now would it?

The story - in my opinion - was written to rub CW operators noses in S#!T 
and villify and spread and FOSTER misconceptions about CW operators.

Care to disagree?

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: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Re: CW Digest, Vol 15, Issue 20



>
> I've asked - and others also - for the name of the author of the story
you
> posted.
>

I don't know who the author of that story is, and I don't much care who it
might be.  It's been floating around the internet for years.

You've chosen to vilify the author (and by extension those who agree with
him/her) as anti-CW low-lifes on a plane comparable to an arsonist/murderer
of your acquaintence.

Of course the story is NOT anti-CW; it doesn't attack CW or CW operators.

Rather it parodies (as in satire) those inbred knee-jerk curmudgeons who
demonize anyone who no longer believes in the need for a Morse examination.


73, de Hans, K0HB
--
Lifelong CW afficianado
Master Chief Radioman, US Navy
--
  http://www.home.earthlink.net/~k0hb






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