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[Ed Tanton]

I'm really curious Fred what it is that you believe to be so mystical 
about learning the code? 8 year old kids have done it for decades. I 
don't mind if you disagree, that's what healthy discourse is all 
about... but where in MY comments did I bring up MY accomplishments? 
Too many folks these days think they can excuse a personal attack by 
tacking on: "with all due respect". Rudeness is rudeness, regardless 
of the way you dress it up (obviously a pet peeve about that phrase.)

As far as EME and Antenna Phasing, the point is that they matter in 
the overall subject of Amateur Radio, and I do not choose to define 
which area is more important than another. I LIKE CW, but I don't 
discourage-or disparage-SSB. In fact, people said the very same 
things about SSB when it was introduced into the ARRL Handbook (and 
subsequently into the FCC exams) so far ahead of its almost universal 
adoption as THE voice method on HF.

Also, there was never any mention of disrespect for NON-hams. It was 
YOUR CHOICE to learn the code or not. Does that somehow make you less 
of a nice guy? Less of a person to not be a ham? Of course not. Does 
it make you lazy? I really don't think so. It simply states that, as 
the rules were laid out, you did not choose to pay the price in time 
and effort to learn the code (and I guess the theory-I suspect it was 
code that you took issue with.) That was EXACTLY what I said: effort 
vs achievement to paraphrase it somewhat.

I HAVE heard of folks who supposedly COULD NOT learn the code. I've 
always wondered about that-and them. Mind you, I've never met one who 
tried and failed. Maybe you did. You are correct about methodology, 
however. There WERE several folks I knew in the 80s who finally 
managed it when the cassettes came out-but none (personally) who 
utterly failed. Maybe there's some sort of disability as yet 
undescribed in any scientific literature that is behind it. Well, it 
won't matter any more now, will it?

But don't tell me I am disparaging non-hams: it just ain't so. I do 
my share of plain old SWL, and simply consider people who CHOOSE to 
LISTEN and not TRANSMIT to be more INTERESTED in LISTENING than 
TALKING. That's all. Not better, not worse, than "hams"-just 
different. It could even be said that there are times when listening 
is better than talking. Like now for example. I don't want to wind up 
having some sort of flame-thing/etc. so any replies I make on this 
subject from now on will only be individually addressed.

Only one last comment: lighten up folks... it's only a hobby.



72/73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy at earthlink.net>
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