[Elecraft] Morse test elimination

[Karl Larsen]

Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
> Karl,
>
> Where do you get the idea that the ARRL is trying to kill BPL?
    That is what the ARRL letters say they need my money for.
> Aren't you aware of the fact that they are, or have been, testing a 
> BPL system at W1AW? 
    They have been traveling to BPL sites and testing from Mobile Rigs.
> As far as the recent changes to 75/80 meters, that was something the 
> FCC screwed up on, not the ARRL.
    Matt read the Report and order and you find it's the old ARRL 
Re-farm the Novice Bands thing. It isn't bad. But they didn't get the 
bandwidth's right. And the digital guys are mad.
> 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.
    I'm a Fox in the Fox Hunts and I run a local CW net. I like CW and I 
will keep using it. But I'm 71 years old and my 3 mile walk is getting 
harder.

72 73 Karl K5DI
>
> 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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