[AMRadio] The PROPOSED ARRL Suggestions to FCC

[Geoff Edmonson]

> >> In fact I would be willing to bet that a chimpanzee could be taught code at
5
> >>WPM!!!  And I would be just as willing to bet that you could NOT teach a
> >>chimp to read a single schematic and build a circuit.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >at least not the SAME chimp...
> >
> >which, to me, speaks volumes for the NEED for a Morse Code
> >requirement.
> >
> >
> So what you are saying is that we need to keep intelligent operators out
> but allow chimps in???????

read it again, Jim...

you can teach a chimp 5wpm... but you can't teach the SAME chimp 5wpm AND how to
read a schematic.

by requiring BOTH, we're keeping the chimps OUT.

73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR