[Fists] garbage, etc.

[Chris Redding]

No you're not.  I agree.
I've always loved morse code, but I learned it because I wanted to, not
because I had to.
I would have learned the code even if it was not a requirement, because it
fascinates me.  That is why I continue to use it now that the morse test is
23 years in my past.
I have heard some of our so called 'no code hams' talking about morse, and
there is a self-help QRS net hereabouts which is continuing despite the
morse test being scrapped.
The way I see it is either:
a) you stop a lot of people becoming hams by erecting an artificial morse
'barrier'
or
b) You get rid of the barrier, allow more people to become hams, then
encourage the ones who show any interest in morse.

I think that b) will result in more morse, because the ones who only learned
morse grudgingly will never use it after they qualify anyway.  (I know at
least three long-standing HF hams who - despite passing the morse test - do
not now even own a morse key...one of them admits that he can't even
remember the alphabet).

FWIW :-)

Chris, G4PDJ
Newbury EG

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Fists] garbage, etc.


> In a message dated 8/30/2003 7:28:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> kb6nu@w8pgw.org writes:
>
> > I may be the only Fists member that doesn't see dropping the Morse code
> > requirement as bringing an end to amateur radio.
> >


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