[Fists] Facts

[John_K7FD]

 He not only hit it on the head, he countersunk it too!!!

 73 John K7FD


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ATanner283@aol.com>
> To: <Wt8r@aol.com>
> Cc: <ny2v@earthlink.net>; <fists@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 7:52 AM
> Subject: [Fists] Facts
>
>
> > 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.........
>
>