[CW] ARRL refused to support code requirement

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:23:49 -0400

I don't think I would have progressed at all if all I ever learned was 5
wpm.

I think I for one, needed to get up to at least 13 wpm to even see what CW
was capable of.

If all I ever needed to know was 5 wpm, I probably would never operate CW.

Just like a flower, CW sprouts when it becomes mature.

If my flowers were only 5 wpm, I'd cut them down like weeds.  Even if it
would be tragic, I'd have no way of knowing that when they got to be 20
inches (wpm) high, they'd be a delight, but at 5 inches (wpm) they just look
like weeds to me.

My only hope is that perhaps someone will hear some of the sweet singings of
manual high speed morse and not cut down the plants until they flower.  (In
other words, keep practicing until their skill becomes mature.)

73

DR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Rosenfeld [N7JI]" <[email protected]>
To: "Nancy WZ8C" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] ARRL refused to support code requirement

> I don't see this as necessarily the case.
>
> Let's be honest about it.  5 wpm really doesn't do much practical for
> anyone since you NEVER have to go further to upgrade.
>
> You'd ending up learning higher speeds because you want to.
>
> Which is pretty much the same as if there's no code element at all.
>
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Nancy  WZ8C wrote:
>
> > I talked to the VEC at ARRL HQ and finally got a straight answer -- they
abstained from voting at the VEC conference that Maia referred to in his
petition.
> >
> > That has the same effect of not supporting the code requirement, since
they knew it would allow Maia to truthfully say there was no opposition
among the VEC's to eliminating the requirement.  The ARRL couldn't come
right out and vote to eliminate it because it would cause too much of an
uproar among the ham community, so they took the weasel way out.
> >
> > Nancy WZ8C
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