[CW] W6BNB's comments to FCC

[David Toepfer]

--- "David J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:
> Earlier comments from W6BNB worth quoting...
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> [...]
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> **The suggested 12 wpm test by ARRL is not quite high enough.
> (ARRL is mostly interested in increasing the number of amateur
> operators to sell more magazines and other items and attract more
> advertisers).

Sad, but I fear implicitly true.  And I am a member.


> Back in the 193O's, the FCC recognized that
> code is learned at 13 wpm so it increased amateur Morse Code
> speed tests from 10 to 13 wpm. (Just because many foreign
> countries give 12 wpm tests is no reason why the U.S.A. shouldn't
> do it properly.)

Agreed.  I have indeed experienced this myself.


> A 5-wpm code test is of no use except to raise the number of
> amateurs. This is proven by the 5-wpm tests given Novices in the
> past, now recognized as being essentially useless. If it is
> desired that someone know the Morse Code let them be tested at a
> speed which will show that they are capable of proper operating -
> that they do know how to send and receive at that speed.

In my research for my own method of learning CW I have found this to be a
universally accepted truth.


73
KB3IPE

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