[TenTec] TenTec Digest, Vol 28, Issue 25

[Dave Edwards]

Jim...I for one agree with you 100%
Sadly, as you know there are many that do not.
And thus lies the demise of Ham Radio.

....Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <We5f at aol.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] TenTec Digest, Vol 28, Issue 25


> Hello:
>
> I hope my comments make it under the cutoff the moderator of this list is
> sure to apply soon.
>
> As Scott has eloquently put it, it's my hope that we hams NEVER decide to
> take it upon ourselves to
> censure or try to stop other hams from freely expressing their opinion.
> After all, isn't that
> what we're really all about (free communication)?  If you don't think this
is
> a particularly dangerous practice,
> tune in 75M any evening and sample the banter.
>
> The real shame is that our new crop of hams have completely missed the
> critical association
> between CW and ham radio.  Can't really blame them - our representative
> organization has missed it
> as well.  It is what has made ham radio so special since its inception.
> Professing yourself a ham radio
> operator and not being proficient at CW is comparable to calling yourself
a
> sailor and not knowing the
> difference between "port" and "starboard".  Or, in the case of an Extra
Class
> amateur licensee, it's being
> an "old salt" and not knowing how to navigate by the stars.
>
> Incentive and no-code licensing has done nothing to improve our ranks.  It
> also hasn't delivered on the
> promise to swell those ranks.  We must continue the tradition of being a
> brotherhood (use the term
> generically).  Newbies must need Elmers to introduce them to the precious
> traditions of ham radio.
>
> Let's keep that concept that we're a brotherhood foremost in our minds.
>
> 73, Jim K5HO
>
> -----------------
> In a message dated 4/10/2005 5:04:52 PM Central Standard Time,
> tentec-request at contesting.com writes:
>
>
> > I wouldn't presume to tell others what subjects to talk about or not
talk
> > about, I just solve my problems without complaining or attempting to
make
> > anybody else conform to my idea of what is acceptible or not to discuss.
> > It's an American principle of Liberty and I am compelled as an American
to
> > defend it.  Freedom to speak freely.  I will never outgrow it, nor will
I be
> > silenced.  And I will not stand by while someone else is silenced.  It's
in
> > my American red blood.  If I could be sent overseas to defend it, I can
> > surely stand right here and do the same.   <snip>
> >
> > As far as CW goes, it's a major part of the hobby for me, and one of the
> > reasons I still have Ten-Tec rigs with their legendary QSK on CW in my
> > shack.  If they outlawed CW, I'd probably get rid of my Ten-Tec rigs
with
> > their legendary QSK on CW.
> >
> > I'd certainly spend alot less time enjoying ham radio.
> >
> > Ten-Tec and CW.  They go together like peanut butter and jelly.
> >
> > For heaven's sake, indeed.
> >
> > PEACE
> > Scott
> >
>
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