[AMRadio] The PROPOSED ARRL Suggestions to FCC
Gary Schafer
garyschafer at comcast.net
Thu Jan 22 17:49:15 EST 2004
Here is some food for thought:
Back in the mid 60's the Air Force Tech school flunked some of the guys
out that could not comprehend electronics. Those that flunked out were
transferred to what was called "ditty bop" school. Ditty bop was where
they made 20 wpm CW operators out of them.
73
Gary K4FMX
:
>> 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.
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> at least not the SAME chimp...
>
> which, to me, speaks volumes for the NEED for a Morse Code
> requirement.
>
> To put it more bluntly, didn't the FeeCee learn from it's mistake in
> 1957, when they gave away the best DX band that Amatuer Operators had
> at the time?
>
> 73 = Best Regards,
> -Geoff/W5OMR
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