[CW] Morse testing

[John Geiger]

--- Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net> wrote:

>> 
> The first reason is to protect the government from
> discrimination
> lawsuits by "disabled" people who "can't" (yes we
> know it is really
> "don't want to") learn the code. Remember that the
> added labor of
> administering code tests has not been a burden on
> the FCC for some years
> now, so they wouldn't care whether there were three
> levels of codes
> tests or one, or what the speeds were.

And I also think they got tired of dealing with the
constant petitions to remove the code test.  They know
that those will go away, and the petitions to
reinstate the code test will be few and far between.

> The second reason is that the real agenda is to get
> Amateur Radio out of
> the way for various pocket lining uses of our
> spectrum. By dumbing down
> the tests and removing the code test, the overall
> expertise of licensees
> is slowly but steadily being degraded. 

Exactly!  If we are nothing more than glorified CB,
which is what we become now that the CW requirement is
gone, why not just limit us to the CB band.  You can
accomplish emergency communications and homeland
security on 27mhz, and it might actually be better
there because more people have CB radios.

  Their spectrum protection efforts and
> BPL defense have been
> very well done, in my opinion. 

I believe that BPL is nothing more than an ARRL
boogyman-similar to Goldberg and the 2 minute hate in
"1984".  But it sure makes them alot of money

73s John W5TD

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