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- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 04:30:22 PDT
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- Subject: Ham-Policy Digest V94 #489
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- Ham-Policy Digest Fri, 14 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 489
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- Date: 12 Oct 1994 07:37:28 GMT
- From: gbrown@unlinfo.unl.edu (gregory brown)
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- References<37c5ak$4mp@chnews.intel.com> <37dapa$ksr@sugar.neosoft.com>, <37eeuo$1dc@chnews.intel.com>
- Subject: Re: CW QSO Content
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- Cecil_A_Moore@ccm.ch.intel.com wrote:
- : In article <37dapa$ksr@sugar.neosoft.com>,
- : Dr. Michael Mancini <mancini@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
-
- : >You know, I have friends who are trying to get their college degrees,
- : >and the years go by and they never get them.
-
- : Maybe you missed the point. We are not talking about qualifications. We
- : are talking about arbitrary governmental regulations. A person not wishing
- : to take a foreign language in college can find one that doesn't require it
- : for a degree. High speed CW testing is to HF amateur radio as a foreign
- : language is to a BSEE degree.
-
- : --
- : 73, Cecil, KG7BK, OOTC (All my own personal fuzzy logic, not Intel's)
-
- BZZZZZZZZT...wrong answer, Cecil. I just love these attempts at
- meaningful analogies! Arguments would be alot stronger without them.
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- Even by Dan's figure, 38% of US amateurs regularly use CW. I'd dare
- say the figure for International hams (on HF) is quite a bit higher.
- Now, if 38% + of all the electrical engineering literature was
- published in another language, you can bet your rubber sea-serpent
- that they would require foreign language for a BSEE.
-
- Care to try another anal-alology?
-
- Greg WB0RTK
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