CANADA REPORTS AGREEMENT TO DROP MORSE

[KI4LZK]

Quote[/b] (kc0sqv @ Jan. 23 2005,09:14)]

Quote[/b] ]You whiners complaining about learning code remind me of children. A bunch of freaking crybabies!

GET LOST...we don't need you on HF!

David ~ KY1V

This is the sort of thing I spoke of in my last thread. #Real classy operator, this guy. #Is this what I'm striving to become?

I have spoken to David KY1V, and yes I would consider him to be a classy operator. I also beleive that the code should remain where it is at. Why? Because I beleive It shows determination!

Determination is what drives us. If you could get something for nothing (some of my fellow code supporters are going to say I did too) what would drive you. Would you learn about something that is important that you
didn't have to?
Thats what I thought

Do I beleive that having the Code requirement would kill amateur radio, of course not.

[VE3GFW]

I have never understood why I had to pass a morse code exam just so that like 90% of those who had passed it, I would never be forced to have to use Morse code again.

Finally once in its long history of following the leader Canada is finally doing the right thing and joining the rest of the world in dropping morse code as a licensing impediment.

Don't be too surprised if the USA is the last country on earth that keeps the morse code barrier to ham licenses.

[K4JF]

Quote[/b] (wd4ptj @ Jan. 23 2005,10:31)]k1yv brought up the very thing i wanted to. # #i am a general class and i had to study for hours about modes that i do not use. ( RTTY, #digital modes #) don't get me wrong i did not mind having to learn about these modes and may use them some day. Funny thing is i don't hear the same people who complain #that they don't want to learn code because they don't plan on useing it complain about having to learn about other aspects of ham radio that they might not use. Are these people willing to say that #they think questions about RTTY, packet emissions on the 10 meter band, Baudot codes, AMTOR operating modes or ASCll should be left off the test because some hams may never use them ? #I wish someone who is for doing away with morse code testing would answer that for me.
#Keith
#WD4PTJ

Don't worry, Keith. Those will be next. "It's too hard to learn about satellite work, cause I'll never do it!!" will be the whine, then another, then another.

[K4JF]

This is just more of the "I want everything handed to me and I don't want to work for it, and I want it NOW" attitude that is so prevelant today. In all areas. Sad but true... I see it all over, not just on ham radio.

[wa4cch]

Quote[/b] (k6bbc @ Jan. 22 2005,10:43)]It's the end of the world as we know it.

K6BBC

if you think this is the end of our world wait 10 or 15 years or less when you can go to the local wally world buy your HAM radio fill out a card mail it in and your a HAM the way it's going you may not even have to do that


chuck

[KA7RRA]

Quote[/b] (N8QGC @ Jan. 23 2005,06:52)]To our neighbors to the north, sorry that some of my countrymen are of primative intellect and can't seem to express their feelings without attacking you on some level.

Why should you be sorry?? didn't they booed US during some socer game at the start of the Iraq war??

[KA7RRA]

Quote[/b] (KD5PSH @ Jan. 23 2005,08:02)]Code is too hard for the handicapped and the whiners. I agree that dropping code will open the HF flood gates to a lowly riffraff.

Are you saying that the handicap people are lowly riffraff?

MY cosion became handicap and died and SHE was no lowlife and I have a friend who is blind and one who is missing a leg are they low life? scum lowly riffraff?

[KA7RRA]

Iam a general class operater and had to learn the code to get my ticket and all of that stuff. Iwent from novice to dick-bash for the tec and then I got my general ticket

It would not bring tears to my eyes if the code was dropped. Those people who want to learn it and use it well and those who don't wont... I have been a ham since 1982 and when I got my general ticket I stopped using code I thinkthe last time was about 10 yrs ago..
Just because thye know code dose not meen they well use it You can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink

[N8QGC]

Quote[/b] (KA7RRA @ Jan. 24 2005,01:13)]

Quote[/b] (N8QGC @ Jan. 23 2005,06:52)]To our neighbors to the north, sorry that some of my countrymen are of primative intellect and can't seem to express their feelings without attacking you on some level.

Why should you be sorry?? didn't they booed US during some socer game at the start of the Iraq war??

That happend at a hockey game while they were playing the Star Spangled Banner. And unless you have proof that anyone on this thread who is Canadian was at that game and booed us I don't feel compelled to rescend my apology for my countrymen's crude behavior!

As for the war, I'll leave that one alone. It has no place on this thread.

[N9LYA]

It should be illegal (Aginst QRZ RULES) to intentionally start or deliberately cause a CODE NO-CODE Debate... Yes even for the owner of QRZ...



Enough all damn ready..

73 jerry n9lya