[Fists] ARRL Study Stinks!

[K0HB H. Brakob]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Davis" <n9avg@worldnet.att.net>

>
> Increasing the bandwidth for rules violators to operate can only add
to the
> present FCC workload while increasing our risk that sooner or later,
someone
> with a brain is going to figure out that there are a bunch of
(really) old,
> fat, retired guys who are sitting on (literally) billions of dollars
worth
> of spectrum that they use to tell dirty jokes, belch into their
microphone,
> spout racial slurs, play music, and jam emergency net operations.
>

A person can only read so much of this unfounded garbage before they
either have to puke, or respond.  Rather than spread my lunch all over
the radio desk, I'll just have to respond.

I love Morse code, use it almost exclusively on the air, and I have no
fear that the FCC is going to outlaw it.  Otherwise, it wouldn't be
the ONLY mode that is authorized to be used on virtually EVERY
frequency in the amateur spectrum.

But Morse code is no more noble, nor less noble, than any other mode
of telecommunications.  Morse code is the choice of most of here on
Fists, but that doesn't make us some sort of higher life form than
operators of other modes.

Neither are non-Morse-capable persons some sort of law-breaking scum
to be denigrated like the insulting jeremiad above.

This never ending groundless argument of Morse-vs-everything-else
reminds me of the arguments between sailboaters and power boaters
about which is best, which seamen are better, which gets through when
the wind isn't blowing, etc. ad nauseous.  While we fight among each
other like a bunch of 4th-grade kids, commercial interests are
planning how to drain our lake and build a shopping mall.

Can we drop this fruitless antagonism against our brothers and sisters
in other modes, and join with them in fighting the REAL threats to our
wonderful Amateur Radio Service like erosion by commercial services,
incursions by freebanders, and similar problems.

With all kind wishes,

de Hans, K0HB
Fists 7419