[Elecraft] Morse test elimination

[David Cutter]

This might have been said already:
I have it in mind that the introduction of the Morse Code as a requirement 
for an amateur licence was to enable (in the UK at any rate) a coast station 
operator to instruct amateurs to clear the frequency in time of war.   Quite 
what the form would be or how it would be believed and followed I don't 
know.

David
G3UNA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VR2BrettGraham" <vr2bg at harts.org.hk>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Morse test elimination


> N8OHU added:
>
>>I'd rather say it's the "fault" of the ITU, if you want the truth. They 
>>were
>>the ones to let the code go back in 2003.
>
> Not quite - the ITU does what its members decide.
>
> And the end of Morse as licensing requirement
> probably started with the JA no-code license -
> the first ITU member that "found" a way to get
> around the requirement.
>
> The amateur population in JA is now contracting,
> but the effect of their no-code license was quite
> positive on amateur radio in Japan when it was
> introduced.
>
> The effect that had on equipment suppliers is
> still obvious today.  I wonder what things would
> be like now if there was no Incentive Licensing, or
> if international opinion would have allowed dropping
> the Morse requirement around that time? ;^)
>
> 73, VR2BrettGraham
>
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