[TenTec] Eliminating CW as a License Requirement

[Carl Moreschi]

I'm sorry but I don't buy the analogy.  CW is a mode that most of us enjoy.
Whether or not it is required for a license is meaningless.  I have never
operated PSK31 but lots of people enjoy it.  PSK31 has nothing to do with my
understanding of ham radio but it is a great mode.  I think that is a more
meaningful analogy.  CW has nothing to do with SSB and SSB was not built
from CW.  Modes will come and modes will go.  CW was just the first.

The average age of hams is somewhere around 60 now.  If something isn't done
to get young people in ham radio, there won't be any ham radio in the next
20 to 40 years.

By the way, I think most people forget the ARRL is a non-profit
organization.  They want more hams so the hobby will continue, not so they
can make more money (since they don't make any now and have no intention
to).

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
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Subject: [TenTec] Eliminating CW as a License Requirement


> Carl:
>
> What's analagous to no longer requiring CW for proof of proficiency to be
a
> licensed ham radio operator is to no longer require students in primary
schools
> to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division because they
can
> push keys on a calculator and get the correct answer.
>
> It's analagous to no longer teaching computer science students programming
> language because they can use existing programs to write other programs.
>
> That's what's wrong with it.
>
> You're right, it's not a disaster for CW.  It's a disaster for ham radio.
> There is really nothing any longer to distinguish us from the CBers.  This
is
> precisely where the ARRL got derailed in representing the best interests
of ham
> radio.
>
> The fact that so many new hams, and even some experienced ones (!), don't
> understand this is the tragic part.
>
> 73, Jim KM5M
>
> ---------------------
> We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop
playing.
> (author unknown)
>
> >Let's be realistic about this new FCC ruling.  It is not a disaster for
CW.
> A disaster would have been if CW was no longer allowed.  The way it is
now,
> only the people that want to learn CW will learn it.  What is wrong with
> that?  I plan on enjoying CW for a long time.
>
> Carl Moreschi N4PY
> 121 Little Bell Drive
> Bell Mountain
> Hays, NC 28635<
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