[TenTec] Real Meaning of the New FCC Proposal

[NJ0IP]

Jeff, unless Americans are quite different from Europeans, you are wrong.
Mandating code proficiency does not mean people who don't like it will use
it.  People use cw for many reasons but "because they have to" in not one of
them.

My 1 cent worth and another cent for the O2 jar.

73
Rick
DJ0IP / DJ2T

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Jeff Frank
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 9:46 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] Real Meaning of the New FCC Proposal

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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