[Boatanchors] OT: CW Test

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

When I was first licensed in 1953, I think there were maybe 100,000 hams in the USA.  I believe that's up to a million now.
  
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> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:28:38 -0600
> From: ranchorobbo at gmail.com
> To: nq5t at tx.rr.com
> CC: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] OT: CW Test
> 
> I disagree.  yes, there were lids, but there are more now.
> 
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
> 
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:26 PM, GRANT YOUNGMAN <nq5t at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> > Actually, while it may make us old geezers feel better that we had to struggle through cigar smoke filled exam rooms and suffer the trials of CW exams, I don't really think the CW test was an effective lid filter.  If there hadn't been lids, Gil wouldn't have had a reason to draw cartoons :-)
> >
> > Grant NQ5T
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 28, 2014, at 6:13 PM, Dennis DuVall <duvallddennis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It was a great "Lid" filter.
> >>
> >> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> >> Glendale, CA
> >>
> >>> On Dec 28, 2014, at 9:59 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'll only add that eliminating the CW test was a mistake, ...
> >>>
> >>> I put in my suggestion at the time to keep a 5WPM CW test
> >>> for just the Extra Class.  I still think it was a good idea.