From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Stephany.WBST@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Title: Re: More Thoughts on CW
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4688
Posted: Tue Dec  7 09:02:26 1982
Received: Wed Dec  8 03:00:25 1982

I understand that there are 4 million Japenese (maybe more now) that use 2
meters.  Maybe the Japenese are a little more prudent than us.  We have 300,000
licesed to use 2 meter (most don't) and that's becomming a mess.

The basic problem is that people intereseted in the commuinication art should be
Hams.  People only interested in cummunication without leaning the art should
be on CB bands, not ham bands.  Remember, CBers have other frequencies
besides 11 meters but never use them.  These are for the people that want to talk
and not lean skill.

I also disagree that a Code-Free licese will spurn forth technical development. 
All atempts in this respect have failed, as I have stated.

I also would like to point out that we have never had a genuinne disaster on a
national scale in the US.  For example,  a complete failure of power generation in
the US (oil cut off), or a  large meteor hits ( it happens on the order of once
every Hundred years that a few hundred or thousand square miles gets wiped
out by one, we have been fortunate up to now), or an atomic war, or an
invading Army  etc.,etc.

Improbable ?  Maybe.  

The choice is not CW or not CW, the choice is a body of technically competent
and operator competent Hams that can communicate under any conditions.  CW is
that competance required so that the operator can operate effectively under any
foreseeable conditions.

Incidently, the reason for the proposal of the Code-Free Licese is that the Reagn
Administration wishes to stimulate the faltering economy by getting a lot of guys
to buy Ham rigs.  Reagan originally tried to stimulate business by opening all
public  lands to anyone who could make a buck off of it, reduce taxes to the
righ below what taxes were for them 10 years ago while giving the middle class
a "tax break" and then raising Social Security so they are mostly paying more.

This produced a depression.  We are still waiting for the benifits.

If the Ham bands open and we have another CB craze then Japan will benifit,
not the US.  In the last CB craze 95% of the equipment was manufactured in
Japan.  No import tax because the senate did not want to offend Japan because
the farmers were selling them wheat and cotton. So we gave them our electronics
industry.  The purpose of the FCC introducing code-free liceses has nothing to
do with improving the Ham service.   So who really benifits from a code Free
licese.  I don't know. Does anyone ??

				Joe  

7 Dec. 1982 11:48 am EST (Tuesday)