[Hallicrafters] CW and the ruin of amateur radio

[Anthony W. DePrato]

At 10:43 AM 8/24/2003 +0600, you wrote:
>The lowering of standards for the ham radio ranks and all other
>organizations, was lowered simply for political correctness.

Well i am still wondering about the above statement. how in the world does 
being political correct  make it correct to lower ones knowledge or what is 
required to been know to obtain and education. Is that why we are putting 
out of our schools kids that can not tell you what two countries  border 
the U.S.
let along  answer a harder question like  what two oceans border Africa. 
the words" political correct" are the cop-out of modern man .


>ELMERS & CODE & MEDICAL EXCUSES:
>
>There are lots of Elmers out there, but the no code techs don't want
>to bother to find them or ask the proper questions.

I spent 10 years teaching amateur class's in KY. I did NOT teach questions 
and answers like 99% of the class's are today. i used the Ameco Theory 
Book. and you had to learn how to use Ohm's law. I never taught a novice 
class i tried to get all my students to take the General Test. yes some of 
them had to take the test 2 or 3 times but why not how many of us who 
really learned out of a theory book did not have to take a test over. i 
took the advanced twice in front of the FCC. but i did not give up and say 
I can not learn it. Yes there are a few Elmers left not many i am sad to 
say. But what i found was that as the FCC and the ARRL worked to make it ez 
to get a ticket and people like Bash books ect. put out the "just memorize 
these questions" books that the new hams did NOT want to learn theory let 
alone code.


>TWO METERS & CONCLUSION:
>
>Two meters is not another CB band.  I don't know where you got that idea but
>perpetuating it is part of the problem.

We here i have to different with you somewhat. 2 mts is close to being a 
glorified  CB band. it is not any ways near as bad as our 10 mt band is 
today. all one has to do is listen to the 10-4's and the "personal here is 
" " my 20 is " " or the one i really like is " my antenna is on the flat 
side" i think everyone know what i am talking about. and to tell the truth 
we are the cause of that. we teach the Q&A class but we Never give a class 
in how to operate on the ham bands. we just let them go and bring the ways 
of their past with them. how many of you have every informed a new ham ( 
nice and politely) the proper why to carry on a qso ? . no i guess we just 
let it ride as they end a qso with us by letting us know they are qrt and 
on the side.
but again this is just MHO and (no it is not the electronics unit of measure )
and to be quite frank i really do not care if i am ever "political correct 
" ill just stay and old fart .
73 Tony wa4jqs