[Elecraft] Sad day for amateur radio

[Julian, G4ILO]

I applaud the action of the FCC in removing the requirement to pass a 
code test. It is both an obstacle to entering amateur radio for those 
with no interest in code, and an obstacle to using the code for those 
who have learned it just to pass a low speed test.

I recently refused a request to change my Morse trainer program 
MorseTest (on my website) so that it would do 5wpm, because I believe 
that it encourages the "wrong kind of learning". I have spent many years 
struggling to overcome a 12wpm "brick wall" because I learned the code 
at that speed, to pass the UK test, instead of using what is now known 
as the Koch method.

Those who want to learn the code will be able to learn it using this 
method, and will not have the problems I and many others have had 
struggling to master a speed that is comfortable to actually use on the 
air. Morse is far from being a dead mode, because it has so many 
unarguable advantages.

73,
-- 
Julian, G4ILO
G4ILO's Shack: http://www.tech-pro.net/g4ilo