[Elecraft] OT: Some "No Code" background

[Daniel B. Curtis]

Ken
I have learning disabilities.
It would have been impossible for me to get an Amateur Radio license
without your efforts.

I have spent been 5 years trying to learn code and am now am almost
competent at receiving 12wpm (I am trying to learn it because it is hard
for me and hits all my weaknesses --- a masochist.).

I would never have tried to learn code unless I had an Amateur Radio license
first.

Thanks and 73
Dan Curtis
N6WN

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Ken G Kopp <kengkopp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got one of the 1st Novice licenses issued ... in September, 1951.  Took
> the exam in Oklahoma City, where the FCC came only once per year.  My
> "Elmer" was a retired Navy CW op and I was taught well.  Long ago I was a
> commercial shipboard RO on a NOAA vessel.
>
> I'm one of the six people who created the "no code" license.  In what I
> consider one of the greatest honors in my Amateur Radio ... I -detest- the
> name "ham" ... career the ARRL appointed me as one of the six members of
> their No Code Study Committee.  BTW, each of us were / are die-hard CW
> operators.
>
> We we --told-- by the FCC that we would be getting some form of codeless
> licensing and we should come up with something that most could live with.
> Lots of "details" were covered over a year and a half of meetings,
> conference calls, etc.
>
> I still have a large box of pro and con correspondence in the attic.  The
> number of letters is about equally divided.
>
> An example of the results ... yesterday I had a KE0 proudly tell me he'd
> just passed his "expert" license, and, his radio emitted a multi-tone CB
> "roger beep" each time he unkeyed his microphone.
>
> Without the "no code" license we most likely wouldn't have Amateur Radio
> with the record 750K licenses we have today, and there's political "safety
> in numbers".
>
> Please, let's not start a thread on the subject.  I just thought some
> "first person" input would be of interest.
>
> 73
>
> Ken Kopp - K0PP
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