[Amps] Drivel

[Mark Bitterlich]

Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com said:

> To evaluate your opinion (and it is nothing but opinion, based on a 
> religious belief in CW), I'd like to know exactly what emergency 
> communications operations you have been a part of in the last ten years, 
> and exactly what your participation entailed. And I'm not asking about 
> drills or training sessions, I'm talking about real emergencies, like 
> tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, explosions, wild-land fires, severe storms, 
> landslides, and earthquakes.

I did not mention any participation in tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, 
explosions, wild-land fire, severe storms, landslides and earthquakes.  What 
I did imply was that I really take exception to debate techniques like 
"asked and answered" (I guess that is actually a legal term), or where the 
other person puts words in my mouth that I never said, which you just did, 
and in addition makes fun of the other person by using terms like "having a 
religious belief in CW", all of which are intended to raise ire, cause 
emotional responses, and in general just be sarcastic and ugly.  Please 
stop.

What I said was that using CW in an emergency will not get you killed.

So to reply in kind: Before I can evaluate your ability to even begin to 
assess my own, I would need to know whether or not you are a pilot, how many 
hours you have, whether you are instrument rated or have a Commercial or ATP 
ticket.  Then I would need to know when the last time you served aboard a 
U.S. Naval Ship, which ones, for how long, and in what capacity, because 
that is what I *DID* talk about.



Mark
wa3jpy




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Drivel


> On Sat,4/29/2017 11:09 AM, Mark Bitterlich wrote:
>> But relying on CW is not going to get you killed.
>
> To evaluate your opinion (and it is nothing but opinion, based on a 
> religious belief in CW), I'd like to know exactly what emergency 
> communications operations you have been a part of in the last ten years, 
> and exactly what your participation entailed. And I'm not asking about 
> drills or training sessions, I'm talking about real emergencies, like 
> tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, explosions, wild-land fires, severe storms, 
> landslides, and earthquakes.
>
> FACT: CW is a great mode, no question about its advantages over voice 
> modes -- IF the operators on both ends are good at it.
>
> FACT: CW is a USELESS mode if there's NOT an operator on BOTH ends who is 
> good at it.
>
> OPINION: The chances of there being an operator on an FM repeater who can 
> copy CW are pretty slim. When I'm using VHF/UHF FM, I'm usually the only 
> one.
>
> OPINION: The chances of SSB ragchewers being competent in CW gets 
> increasingly slim as the ham population ages. And most SSB ragchewers are 
> there because they DON'T work cw.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
> Founding member CWOPS, #69
>
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