[CW] Our Position on Morse Requirement

Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:16:47 -0400

"Rein A. Smit" <[email protected]> wrote:

> � Please grow up and work towards world wide Radio Administration's enforced
> � band planning and operating discipline. If you work other than CW in the CW
> � band we will get you in the end because it is the law!
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> � 73 Rein PA0ZN � �
> � �I believe this is the point.  Right now, it is the law in many countries, but the recent ITU ruling no longer makes it international law.  Without that to back us, we have no standing to "require" our local governments to continue the rules they now have.  We must work on individual countries now, encouraging them to continue to require CW testing, for anyone who wants to work cw: and sub-bands, to protect our use of those frequencies.

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>Jim Glover wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> 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
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