[CW] Code test speed

[N2EY@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/30/03 12:50:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, n5lf@qsl.net 
writes:


> I also have had very real, personal experience with disabilities.  No one
> should fault ADA - it is a good law.  The problem was how FCC implemented it
> for the CW exam.  But with the advent of the slower CW exams, they also
> dropped the waiver.  So, it is now moot.
> 
> 

It is my understanding that ADA had nothing to do with the creation of 
medical waivers for the code exam. They came about because a now-dead King with the 
call JY1 asked President Bush I for a favor. The White House passed the buck 
downstairs to FCC and poof, we had waivers. And the King owed the Prez a favor.

73 de Jim, N2EY


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