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VK6BE > FUTURE 23.03.08 13:24l 48 Lines 1881 Bytes #999 (0) @ VKNET
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Subj: Re:Who Will Replace Prof Julius Sumner-Miller?
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From: VK6BE@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
To : FUTURE@VKNET
Hi again Ray.
> I know an amateur who used to live in Sydney. He made so many trips to
> North Sydney to do the morse exam that tehy almost provided him with
> accomodation, hi. This was back when the department held the examinations
> every three months. This poor guy knew his mose but just went to pieces > in the exam. They ended up
calling him in for a special sitting, and he
> passed.
It's a well known fact that some people freeze up under stress but it
doesn't only apply to morse code. I have seen it in my capacity assisting
the adjudicator in music eisteddfods. Kids can play a piece well until in
the public eye and then suddenly they get stuck and end up in tears. Some
"experst" use this as an argument against holding muci exams and
eisteddfods but they are really only dodging the issue. In some facets of
life we need to exhibit skills and music is one of them; so is morse code
(although it is not compulsory now of course but we are talking of when it
was compulsory).
>
> I don't share that point of view, Bob, because long before the internet e > the decline was well
entrenched.
Well we differ on this one, Ray.
> There was much derogatory comment in these forum about
> the Land Line Lid but the internet can also be our friend. With the > demise of amateur backbone
links around the country, there would be > > virtually no packet without
the internet.
Yes I saw plenty of those derogatory comments and I did not think they
were helpful.
Your contribution to such as me are very much appreciated. Without your
help I would have been off packet a couple of years ago.
> I think it's interesting to have other points of view, regardless of >
whether we agree with them.
Yes it can be but the present intolerant attitude of some amateurs from
overseas is not helpful.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
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