[CW] Our Position on Morse Requirement

[Jim Glover]

> 3) Those who are pushing for HF privileges, without having to put in the 
> effort to pass a morse test, will get both digital and phone privileges.

This point is stated as if founded on an inaccurate, unwarranted
assumption, that the people who support no-code HF access are composed
primarily of those who have not yet attained HF privileges, and that
their motivation is based on hopes of avoiding "the effort to pass a
morse test."

I hope you will not present this as any sort of consensus.  It is bad
enough when individual hams speak as if they believe that the no-code
faction is composed of nothing other than no-code technicians and
non-licensees who are motivated by a lazy desire to avoid work.  It
would be even more injurious to the health of the ham community if
this sort of insult were presented as the consensus of the CW-loving
faction.

Many who support the elimination of the requirement for Morse testing
for HF access already have HF access, and/or genuinely believe that it
simply is not in the amateur radio service's best interests to continue
to require Morse testing for HF access.  These people do not deserve
to be dismissed as a bunch of wanna-be's who wanna-be without effort.

73,
Jim  WB5UDE