[QCWA] Quarter Century or Not??

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Another Cheer for Brother Jeff 1.0!!!

I forgot to chime in on the Computer age and or CW (my
favorite mode)..
and will digress for fear of causing an email swell of
catastrophic proportions! 
<smiling>.......because I do have my views regarding CW and
what "I" feel should have been done...
TOO late now...but there were other choices.... and if you
do operate CW and do NOT master sending it....
well then....you have some improvement that is mandated
before ye cast a stone about doing things correctly and
Elmering anyone...

Wait...I said I was going to digress...and I must...





> I don't think we need to change the name to the NYMWA.
> (New York Minute Wireless Association)
> 
> But.... There needs to be a realization that 25 years ago
> was 1983. The beginning of the computer revolution.
> 
> I think the point that needs to be addressed is that is is
> indeed the Quarter Century Wireless Association, not the
> "We are stuck in the '40s Wireless Association."
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy hearing stories about what
> it was like being a HAM during WWII, but not to the extent
> of those veterans being to only "real" HAM radio
> operators.
> 
> Being in my fifties, I cringe as well when I hear people
> my age going on about "We were the only ones that knew how
> to do drugs".
> 
> There are still people in the ARRL that think that code
> should be a requirement. And there are others out there
> that insist on referring to the new Extra Class licensees
> as "Extra Lite."
> 
> These are the people that are killing amateur radio. Not
> the "noobs" (to use current vernacular).
> 
> Quit the hand wringing about the good old days and if you
> think that HF and Morse Code are the "only true form of
> communication," get off you rear, stop sitting in the
> corner talking about your health issues and talk to the
> young ones. Teach them the code, and stop purposely
> sending sloppy so they can't decode your fist with a
> Kantronics terminal unit.
> 
> A bit of personal history: I was first licensed in 1967.
> In 1971 I was given a Teletype Model 15 page printer by my
> boss at Signal One in Gardena. "Make it work with our
> radio." I thought I died and went to heaven. I don't have
> to use a key and I always thought I "sounded funny"
> 
> I may joke about "Real keyboards have Green Keycaps" but I
> don't belittle those on packet, amtor or psk. And I still
> make it a point to try and make one contact on SKN every
> new years eve.
> 
> As a friend of mine says, "Be part of the solution, not
> part of the problem."
> 
> Jeff-1.0
> wa6fwi
> 
> on voice.
> 
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