[TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM]

[d.e.warnick at comcast.net]

Thank you KC4ATU. You have echoed the feelings of thousands. Every amateur operator who did not want to see the code dropped, but who did not write the FCC, at the urging of a very hard working ARRL, has unintentionally allowed this to happen. We could not have changed it anyway, but our voices should have been heard.
So what can we do now? Continue to operate CW as we have in the past. Enjoy it and show the world that it is still a viable force in our communications.
That's it. Let's focus our energies in the positive side of things. The ARRL has done a heck of a lot to keep us informed of what is happening and to enable us to operate at all

WA3MKB

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "bill rowlett" <c4atu at hotmail.com> 

> 
> 
> 
> >From: "AD5VJ Bob" 
> > 
> > So tell me something: 
> > 
> >I am a member of many many lists on Yahoo and have not caught up reading 
> >all of them today because of this news that the ARRL 
> >dropped the ball on Amateur Radio again. 
> > 
> >Not one response that I read so far, was in favor of this move on any of 
> >those lists. 
> > 
> >So my question is: 
> >How about we form a League of some kind that will protect and represent our 
> >interests as LICENSED Amateur Radio Operators? 
> > 
> >Sounds like the unlicensed folks have their League already, we just pay for 
> >it annually. 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> This has been coming for many years. You and I have had ample time to yet 
> the FCC know how we feal about it. The international community has gone this 
> route and now so do we. The ARRL was not behind a total elimination. They 
> wanted to retain it for Extra Class, so get off the lets bash the ARRL. They 
> are not correct all the time and neither are you or me, so cool it with the 
> bashing, grow up. 
> 
> When CW was droped from the shipping industry and from the military, the 
> hand writing was on the wall. Freight trains are hard to stop 
> 
> What now, USE it, be EXCITED about it, and TEACH it. It will last as a mode 
> of operation, AM is still here. 
> 
> 
> 73, KC4ATU 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message----- 
> > > From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com 
> > > [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Shock 
> > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 9:55 PM 
> > > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
> > > Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM] 
> > > 
> > > what a shame 
> > > 
> > > On 12/15/06, Ken N9VV wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > Looks like it is for real! 
> > > > http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269012A1.pdf 
> > > > de ken n9vv (old CW Dinosaur) 
> > > > 
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