[Elecraft] Morse test elimination

[Matthew D. Pitts]

Karl,

Where do you get the idea that the ARRL is trying to kill BPL? Aren't you 
aware of the fact that they are, or have been, testing a BPL system at W1AW? 
As far as the recent changes to 75/80 meters, that was something the FCC 
screwed up on, not the ARRL. And the ARRL has been opposed to the total 
elimination of the code test; they wanted at least for the code to be 
required for Extra Class. Don't give up teaching the code to people just 
because it's not required; it's still useful when all else fails.

Matthew N8OHU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Larsen" <k5di at zianet.com>
To: "VR2BrettGraham" <vr2bg at harts.org.hk>
Cc: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Morse test elimination


> Guys, the ARRL almost caused a revolt in FCC-Wireless. They were being 
> visited by ARRL people daily. They are lawyers and they are trying to kill 
> Internet on power lines, and push band planning and morse code testing 
> removal.
>
>    Then after they GOT the band plan they pushed it was discovered ARRL 
> goofed. They made too much space near the CW/Digital bands Extra Class. 
> But then wait. It will be simple to get a Extra Class license. No 20 WPM 
> send and receive, hard written stuff, it is just some multiple guess 
> questions now.
>
>    The ARRL keeps sending me mail which says they need big bucks to keep 
> the lawyers in Washington. Will I send a hundred bucks? I throw away to 
> letter.
>
>    All the fun I have had teaching code to people is over. My last effort 
> was fun because I had a 5 year old girl. She had little trouble with the 
> code, but she had not learned how to write down a Z or A.
>
>    So all this is over. Well I'm almost over too.
>
> 72 73 Karl K5DI
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> VR2BrettGraham wrote:
>> 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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