[CW] here we go

[Gregory W. Moore]

GA, David and the list.

Thanks, David, for expressing your opinion so elequently.  I couldn't 
agree with you more.   I have deliberately remained an "Advanced" class 
amateur ever since I passed the code element for extra back in the FCC 
testing days, but missed the theory element.   OK, as time went on, and 
I got tied up with other things, I forgot about going for Extra, until 
it was too late, and the FCC took the 20WPM away from the requirement. 

At that point, the license stopped meaning anything to me, and I chose, 
and still choose, to remain an "orphan" Advanced class.  At least I have 
the satisfaction of knowing that I earned that one fair and square.    
Now, I have to move fast and get a VE to give me my T2, before that, 
also, becomes meaningless.   I only have to figure out how to get the 
operating time in for T1 after getting T2, since, as you have kindly 
informed me, I can't use anything which happened BEFORE I got the T2, 
and seeing how there aren't too many shore stations or ships around 
where I can practice my craft "as a telegrapher" I can't see how I can 
legitimately log the time.

What is truly weird. is the dichotomy existing between the gov't 
treatment of aviation time vs telegraphic time..... If you learned to 
fly in the military, and accumulated x number of hours fixed wing, x 
number helo, x number instrument/night, etc etc, those could be used, 
upon your discharge, toward an equivalent civilian class of commercial 
pilot's certificate this was guaranteed by the FAA.    If you gained all 
your radio experience in the military, especially CW, had occupational 
codes to prove same, as well as certificates to prove same (Speed Key 
Cert, copies of signed off test for same) as well as records of duty on 
various ships/ shore stations AS A RADIOMAN, with your fitness reports 
clearly stating your duties (as sitting multiple CW circuits, sitting 
those circuits with the USCG Ice Patrol, since their station was 
colocated with yours, and had  beaucoup hours of sitting MF CW with 
merchant vessels, as well as Navy CW circuits, including from aircraft 
to ground, on all freqs, including LF on up......
That time, and those qualifications meant absolutely 0.00 to the FCC.  
It didn't matter the years you spent at SEA doing the exact same thing 
as one's civvy counterparts....... (hey I"m not ranting at you, I'm 
trying to make a point about how ignorant the damn FCC is and how 
inconsistant....


I have already vented my spleen on the other lists (MARS, MARS-DIGITAL) 
about the lack of coordination and use of our system during the Katrina 
emergency.

FYI I have been sitting Necos on the Emergency freq for 2 hrs/day  3 
days a week (the 7 Mhz one) and have yet to have gotten anything, even a 
checkin.....that's either on SSB or MT-63..... One would have thought 
that, given the state of the emergency (no power, no infrastructure) the 
only stations which might have been on the air would have been QRP-CW 
operating from whatever alternative battery source was around, and in 
fact, there was a broadcast which stated this, and kinda gave a backdoor 
permission to answer..but I have no idea if this was the official line, 
or simply an area director giving his imprimatur to a really sensible 
idea, and to heck with the "rules".   Fiasco, you betcha.....


Count me in as another voice in the wilderness agreeing with your first 
paragraph, and like you, I believe also that it will be "when pigs fly", 
but we can always hope, cant we... I do also believe that in the months 
ahead there is going to be a lot of finger pointing and accusations 
about "Buck Rodgers Gee Whiz" communications modes that "never fail"  
and are "the wave of the future"   Cell Phones?   'BAH HUMBUG"  Satcom?  
" BAH HUMBUG"  fancy digital modes?  BAH HUMBUG! ( Don't work too well 
when ya don't have computer power, do they????? [HUGE EVIL GRIN]  VHF 
and repeaters? "BAH HUMBUG"  (    line of sight, no repeater power)   
same goes for all the gee whiz, hyperdrive stuff.....but heck CW HAS 
BEEN OUTLAWED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (

WHEN CW IS OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL USE CW!!!!!!!!!   


as always, 73 es ZUT

de Greg "GW" Moore WA3IVX/ NNN0BVN

de

David J. Ring, Jr. wrote:

>I think we should have licensed FCC operators at AM, FM and TV stations and 
>on ships sending sweet CW, but we will see that "when pig's fly".
>
>Poor misunderstood piggy!
>
>Chickens make a contribution to breakfast, but pigs really make a 
>committment:
>
>bacon, sausage and ham!  Yipes!  You have to die to give that sort of stuff.
>
>Think about it - remember hams are pigs!
>
>v73
>David N1EA
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Thomas M.Beaudry" <k8la at arrl.net>
>To: "CW List" <CW at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 1:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [CW] here we go
>
>
>I think the FCC should still be doing the testing.
>
>  
>
>>Frankly, I thought that ONLY the ARRL should have done testing.
>>See what you get by letting NC-VEC in?  I mean NVEC.
>>    
>>
>
>  
>


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