[Qcwa] CW

[Gregory W. Moore]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was a terrible moment in my life to get the 1st
Phone certificate back with that stamping all over it. To go from 1st Phone
to General was a lousy thing for the Friendly Candyman to do. And, since
this is about CW, how about those of us who held Comml Telegraph? ( 2nd Tel)
GONE!
Darn it, I was an RM in the Navy, Worked 500 kHz and down in the 400's for
tx/rx  am a life member of SOWP, and the Candyman just says, "you're
irrelevant" and removes the license.
What SHOULD have been done is simply like the license classes today. I have
Advanced, and wouldn't upgrade for all the money in the world, simply
because "it ain't there anymore". We should have been "on the books" as what
we were, not what is new. If the FCC wanted to dumb down the license, that's
one thing, but set a cutoff date and let those who had "been there, done
that" keep what they had, and license any new applicants with the dumbed
down license. The ops/license holders should have been allowed to keep what
they got.
Incidentally, Harvey, you are dead right about college degrees. What I see
in college today is basically unrecognizable. Today, I figure I would last
maybe 4-5 days before being ignominiously kicked out for some "thoughtcrime"
or "unapproved speech" or "Not Politically Correct....hi....like I care" I
got mine the old fashioned way, at night school, working and studying until
I wasn't sure what day it was, and raising a family simultaneously. I am
emphatically not bragging here, as I was with a bunch of guys who were doing
the same thing, but at least we got an education, and not the watered down
Politically Correct shadow of what passes for a college education today. To
top it off, while I was at school, I had to put up with abuse from the darn
liberal hippies who were occupying the campus in that era (early 1970's)
When they found out I was a vet, and had served in Vietnam, some cretin
painted some pretty nasty stuff on my car concerning their perceived idea of
what I had been involved with (nothing to do with communications, of course
hi). This, also, unfortunately, was not an isolated experience. There are
more of us than I care to count who underwent the same "trial by idiots" in
the same period.
Sorry for the rant, but as long as we are venting tonight, I might as well
get my 2 cents in.
73 de WA3IVX (Greg Moore)

Harvey&Bessie wrote:

> How about those of us who held First Class Radiotelephone with several
> endorsements, being converted to "General Radiotelephone" a Xerox thing
> on yellow paper in place of the former which was on nice certificate
> paper with an engraved border. I was so made I didn't even sign it.
> Not only ham radio that is being dumbed down, it's everything, including
> college degrees.
> Harvey/W4TG
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