From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Stephany.WBST@PARC-MAXC@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Title: Re: CODE FREE
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4641
Posted: Mon Dec  6 10:06:40 1982
Received: Tue Dec  7 03:06:09 1982

re: Code free,  Ed , KC7AK

One short comment on your code free licese message:

If the people that get their licese are only interested in packet radio, computer
communications, and electronic mail then they do not belong in Ham radio.
Ham radio exists solely for public service and has little other justification.  It is
essential that all Hams, to be Hams, are trained for that last ditch stand that can
be offered by a flood, huricane, etc. 

There is no room in Ham radio for people that wish to reep the benifits without
developing the skills for disaster work.  The fact that 300,000 Hams are licesed in
the US, and can all (supposidly) send and received CW at some minimum level,
is the greatest disaster preparedness you can have.  Do you wish to do away
with this and have Hams that can only push buttons on computers ??

What happens when the lights go out and all you have is  ....  ????
Do you call that a justification for Ham Radio ?  The feds would take over our
frequencies for their own version of disaster if it were.

					Joe  N2XS  (Spark Forever !)