[CW] Re: And now the other shoe drops...

[Joe]

Another Slant On it...
With no more code tests,  maybe there will be less new licensees who think
they can send when they really can't and the ones who can't now will slowly
fade away, leaving the cw sub-bands for us guys who enjoy cw and can
actually send and recieve..





----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Chester" <k4kyv at hotmail.com>
To: <scottamcmullen at yahoo.com>; <markd at mfwi.org>; <wb8rcr at arrl.net>;
<cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: RE: [CW] Re: And now the other shoe drops...


>
>
> >From: scott mcmullen <scottamcmullen at yahoo.com>
>
> >The cynic in me suspects that they'll shortly
> >be sharpening their pencils to write petitions
> >to eliminate any mode or bandwidth restrictions,
> >anywhere.
>
>
> If I were faced with the choice between a 13/20 wpm code requirement and
no
> subbands, and no-code with the present subband structure, I would opt for
> the former.
>
> Many of the "cw" frequencies lie idle even during prime hours for the
band,
> especially on 80m.
>
> Use it or lose it!
>
> Don K4KYV
>
>
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