[Elecraft] No Code UK view

[michael taylor]

On 9/4/05, alan alan <g8tkv at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> The UK amateurs voted by a reasonable but no a large majority to drop
> the code post WRC03.
> 
> The issue for the administration (then the Radiocommunications Agency
> - RA) was a defensible licensing need.  Historically CW was the only

I believe the secondary reason is that the RA, and Industry Canada (in
Canada), want to simplify administration of amateur radio licensing.
Both government agencies appear to be streamlining the processes thus
requiring fewer government resources to handling amateur licensing. I
believe in Canada it may be not much more than a single person
spending 1-2 days a month on amateur radio licensing (issuing new
licenses updating the government database that RAC makes available,
<http://www.rac.ca/callbook/>, and in recent history, no enforcement
resources. Eliminating Morse testing is consistent with this
simplification of amateur licensing, which I believe the FCC is
interested in as well.

-ve3tix