[Elecraft] RE: Sad day

[Thom R LaCosta]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Craig Rairdin wrote:

> So my question is, should a bunch of us be able to get together and ask that all the technical requirements for ham licenses be dropped just because it's hard? That's what this "no code" thing sounds like to me. To me dropping the code and only having a written test is philosophically no different than dropping the written test and keeping the code.

Sure....after all, why impede the enjoyment of a hobby by making it difficult to 
join?  I think you made a very interesting point...and I'm waiting for folks to 
have lots of words explaining wny dropping the technical requirements would be 
wrong, while they champion dropping the CW requirements.

>
> I think I'll stop posting on this subject now. :-)

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73,Thom-k3hrn
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