Re: [TenTec] Real Meaning of the New FCC Proposal

["Bill Rowlett" <kc4atu@hotmail.com>]

The only way a new ham will get that message is when you open tour mouth and 
tell them. People become interested a a mode of operation by being 
introduced to it by a friend. So, let others now the fun that CW is.

The other OT thing you spoke I must ask, What part of ILLEGAL do you not 
understand.

kc4atu

> From: "Jeff Frank" <jafrank@nyc.rr.com>
> Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: [TenTec] Real Meaning of the New FCC Proposal
> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:46:27 -0400
>
> I'm not picking on you in particular Rob, but your idea that cw will 
> continue to live on as strongly, without it being an FCC testing 
> requirement, strikes me as quite naive. The FCC's new proposal to eliminate 
> cw testing is clearly a retraction of a long standing endorsement by them 
> of that mode of operation. Think about why the government continues to 
> fight against the medical use of marijuana ... because recognize to 
> sanction such use (and BTW I believe it ought to be legal for the medically 
> needy) would send a message of endorsement about smoking pot to the general 
> public, and they don't want to do that. They don't want to send that kind 
> of message. Try and read between the lines and look at the meaning and the 
> real implications of things. Regarding the idea of other modes not having 
> to be tested for, so why should cw be ... the FCC's retracting their 
> endorsement of the importance of cw has a different meaning than does never 
> having made an endorsement for one of the other
>   communication modes to begin with. It says "we used to think this was 
> important but now we don't anymore."  That's not the message I want new or 
> prospective hams to get.
>
> Jeff (KX2P)
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