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Bilt Pasternak WA61TF
28197RobinAve.
Saugus CA 91350
Barry Goldwater
Says YES to No-Codel
" I'll make a prophesy, and I
won't be alive to ever see it come
true . If we continue to require a
knowledge of code for an lama.
teur) license, people are going
to just plain die! I'm BO, and I know
I'm I'lO! going to be around here
forever, and when I'm gone, that 's
one less guy who knows the code,
so what's the difference. I don't
want to see amateur radio die out
because, as I have said, 98% of
all of the improvements made in
radio have come out of an amateur's
shack. I want to see that
encouraged. I think we can swell
our ranks by at least 200,000 if we
just auow young would-be amateurs
to come in as licensed amateurs
withOut having gone through
the process of learning Morse
Code!"
With these words, former US
Senator Barry M . Goldwater
K7UGA threw his hat into the ameteur
radio political arena on the
side of those who favor expansion
of the amateur service through the
introduction of a cede-tree entry
level amateur license. Senator
Goldwater made those comments
in a videotaped interview record
at his Scottsdale, Arizona, ranch
on Saturday. February 25, to
newsman Roy Neal K6DUE, producer
Frosty Oden N6ENV, and
Newsline Radio's Bill Pasternak
WA6ITF.
Needed: New Blood
During the same s e ssio n,
K7UGA said that he did not think
that the amateur community could
hold onto the majority of the spectrum
it has, particularly at VHF
and UHF, without substantial
growth . "Can they Ithe amateurs)
hold onto it with the numbers they
now have? It's very doubtlul. Can
you hOld onto them with a couple
hundred thousand young erneteurs?
Yes!"
K7UGA went on to give his view
that experimentation and building
in amateur radio may be
a dead issue with many ol today's
hams, but it can be revived by
gelling younger people interested
in the service: .. . . . We have got
to get some new blood . We have
to get th e new ones who will
sit down with a screwdriver and
soldering iron and a manual, and
build s omet hin g . When they
(younger hamsj hear 01 so me
new method 01 communications,
they [will] sound like they know
something about it ... You ask the
average ham our age-or my age,
because I'm a hell of a lot older
then you-to describe some 01
these new signals, and they can't
do it."
Partly Politics
Senator Goldwater says that
the Amer ican Rad io Re lay
League, publications, and industry
, must take an active roll in leading
amateur radio to new times
throu gh a no-code amateur license:
" . . . you first have to get
the ARRL behind it. You have to
get these magazine eoncrs-wrc I
think are inclining that way. And
(talking to the amateur radio industry)
you have got to remember
one thing, il you have more amateurs,
you are going to sell more
equipment.
" You have the same problem in
anything that touches on polio
tics...The easiest way (to grow)
is to convince the American Radio
Relay League that , opposition or
no opposition, if they want to increase
the amateur ranks, they
have to do away with the number
one objection-code."
Pass
it Along
The complete program was uplinked
to the WESTSTAR 5 Communications
satellite (122.5 Degrees
West) on Sunday ahernoon,
March 12 at 3 PM Eastern/Noon
Pacific. It appeared on transponder
1D (1 Direct-Horizontal Polarization).
Amateurs with satellite
receivers and VCRs who recorded
the program are encouraged to replay
it at their regular club meetings,
and use it to help formulate
the ir opinion on these issues. As
no music was on the presentation,
it's suitable for live or delayed retransmission
on ATV systems.
You can also replay the audio on
your local repeater. Newsline
Radio and the BEAR Information
Service provided the audio
portion of the Goldwater conlerence
by dial-in telephone aher it
aired. III
Barry Goldwater K7UGA, an elder statesman of amateur radio and
veteran CWop, during his statement ofsupport fora ro-coae entry-level
license.
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