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Ham-Digital Digest Wed, 5 Jan 10 Volume 2000 : Issue 5
Today's Topics:
FCC 5 WPM test requirement :-) (2 msgs)
Ignor that last one, too big!!! But what did I do wrong here???
International Press Conference
OS Packet operators in the US
Pactor II sked anyone?
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:18:05 -0500
From: "KAL" <kal4502@hotmail.com>
Subject: FCC 5 WPM test requirement :-)
To Start off, I am not picking on Mr. Coleman, he just started the thread
and after reading the replies, what follows is my opinion of the whole Code
versus No Code affair.
Additonally, I am not a "Code Freak" (i.e. FISTS member, etc.) but what I
can tell y'all is this. If one tries to learn the code by memorizing let say
the letter A as DIT DAH from a sheet of paper rather by listening to it's
sound, they are not going to pass the code test. I learned this from my
experience years ago!
Also attitude is everything, Mr. Coleman sets himself up for failure, just
read his POST, which is typical of most reduced code or code-free posts read
to date, "found learning morse code to be very hard for me.........I can not
picture myself ever passing the old 13 WPM test.......etc."
I just took my father (age 65) for his no code test three weeks ago, he only
had 8 days of 1/2 hour each with about 1/2 the letters learned, and said he
thought the test would be easy. The man had not heard (now mind you heard)
code in over 20 years since I moved away from home up to that point in time.
Further more, if one can learn the melody to a song, which with few
exceptions most people can, then one should be able to learn the code. A
song is a more complicated pattern to learn than the code, in fact a bird
learn songs to communicate with so why cannot a Human learn the code? After
all the bird's brain compared to a Human's is like comparing a Cray to a
Palm Pilot!
A lot of posters wrote about college and technical school educated people
wanting to be ham, but cannot learn the code. Obtaining my ASEE and BSEE
degress was on hell of a lot hard to do than learning the code, especially
compared to the days when the test givers where FCC Federal Radio Inspectors
whose goal was to fail as many people as possible versus the VECs' Nice Guy
VEs.
What all this sounds like to me is a time management rather than a learning
problem. Everyone has so many other things to do in their lives they just do
not have the time in reserve to learn the code.
I say this let us cut through the BS and someone petition the ITU to just do
away with Ham License tests all together. Send you bucks to your countries
government communications agency, they issue a call Sign. This solves any
time management or learning problems in one nice neat package.
Everyone would have equal access based soley upon base their economic means
to purchase the required accessories and radio equipment.
Better yet maybe incentive licensing should be economically based, which
would be a win-win situation for all, especially the governments who could
rake in more buck for more privilges.
--
Just Another HAM in America --- Royer D
"Dale Coleman" <kf4sir@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:38705e2b.9271066@news.earthlink.net...
> Hi all, is anybody else out there as happy as me about the new FCC 5
> WPM test requirement for upgrading to HF?
>
> I got into ham radio in the first place because of my interest in the
> digital modes but found learning morse code to be very hard for me.
>
> I put in over 1 1/2 hours per day 7 days a week for 6 weeks straight
> trying to pass the 5 wpm test. Because of my schedule and other
> interest I can not picture myself ever passing the old 13 WPM test
> required for General.
SNIP SNIP SNIP
>.
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Date: 05 Jan 2000 05:21:40 GMT
From: cgales@aol.comstopjunk (CGALES)
Subject: FCC 5 WPM test requirement :-)
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@rising.com.au> wrote:
>Yet these digital modes are where real HF experimentation is taking
>place, not the phone segment.
Then maybe the phone segment should be reduced :-)
I think it is a little premature to suggest changing band plans at this time
since the effects of the recent R+O won't be known for some time. The R+O
doesn't even take effect for 3 1/2 more months. Who knows, maybe some of
those
that get increased HF privileges will find there are advantages to CW and we
will end up with more CW ops. Unintended consequences and all that....
Besides, while the new HF modes are interesting, how much real experimentation
is involved by downloading someone else's software, loading it onto your
computer and running it? When I buy a new scanner for a computer and load the
software, I don't call it experimentation. If it seems too much like
experimentation, then I take the stuff back!
Hams can give many many reasons why they are involved with the hobby. Boiling
it all down to trying to keep up with the latest available in the multi-
billion
$ communications industry is a mistake, IMO. As a means for self-education,
To be continued in digest: hd_2000_5B
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