[Elecraft] Re CW omission

[Ron Willcocks]

Hi
     It's with some degree of mirth that I read all the doomsday messages 
about the death of CW with them dropping the test over there in the 
States.......We had the same thing happen here a year or two back, and 
regardless of what all the "nay-sayers" had to say about it, CW is alive 
and well here, and in fact is  growing. I suspect that some guys are giving 
CW a go now that the pressure to take it as a requirement for a license has 
disappeared.
As for the lack of a CW test not filtering out the (dare I say it) 
"rabble", that is not entirely true either. A bloke (or YL) probably isn't 
going to bother taking the exam to come on air if he/she isn't interested 
in the first place. If they are a bit "green" compared with yesterdays lot, 
it is up to us to Elmer them in the ways and means of being an Amateur. 
Encouragement is the word guys...not abuse...we all had to start somewhere.
I doubt Elecraft sale will drop, as there definitely are people out there 
right now who suddenly have the opportunity to put their electronic skills 
to work building a HF set because a door has been opened for them.  Maybe 
not on CW just yet....but who knows?
73......Ron ZL1TW
    


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