[Fists] Facts

[ATanner283@aol.com]

HERE are the FACTS, ma'am.................
The majority of hams who 'think' they are electronics experts today can't 
figure out how to use an ohmmeter. They think they are the equivalent of a 
Bachelor's degree in electronics just because they passed a very basic test on how 
to turn on a radio. They may know how to boot up a computer or change a video 
card, but they have no idea how to troubleshoot a "radio." 

Of course, that skill isn't needed today. All they need to know is how to 
unwrap it when it arrives, where to find the wall outlet, and which hole the 
microphone goes into. Experts? How silly! "Them days is gone forever!!" 

It has little to do with Morse, actually. It has to do with the entire 
approach of American society that we have to start at the top, have the easiest and 
fastest route to our goals, exert the least effort, know the least and think 
we know the most, and try pushing the mountains we used to climb down into 
anthills so no climbing is needed or desired. It is a desire not to have 
achievement, but just to have. It is the act of making everyone qualify for everything, 
by law, rather than having them qualify by devotion. It is granting automatic 
'rights' where there were privileges to be earned. We still want to plant the 
flag on the mountain peak, but we want the peak to be only a foot high. Morse 
was only one rock in the way of leveling the mountain. When the mountain is 
gone, the challenge of climbing it will have faded into nothing more than a 
gray memory. We are near there in ham radio, and in a lot of other walks of life 
as well. We are no longer about achievement or personal challenge; we are 
about 'rights.' 

We aren't going back. We who enjoyed the old ham radio must adapt to the new, 
whatever that will be, or we must turn it over to the new and let them have 
their not-so-golden days. Then, when the next mountains are leveled, they, too, 
can complain that it has changed, that it is not the ham radio they 
visualized. 

When we are so diluted we are no longer fine wine but pale water, we will not 
have the strength or the desire to fight things like BPL. And our need to 
society, already greatly diminished, will be replaced by our obnoxious attitude 
that we are God's gift to the community. We will have over-valued ourselves 
into no value at all, and perhaps will have become more of a pain in the butt, to 
the FCC and to authorities around us, that we are neither needed nor 
accepted. 

Eventually, it will be gone. 
    
    
This was written by W5HTW............................a nail hit directly on 
the head......... 
    



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