[CW] ARRL refused to support code requirement
Thomas Beaudry
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:03:35 -0400
> 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
>
Thanks. I was guessing that it would be something like that.
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Thomas M. Beaudry
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