[Elecraft] kxpd3 question

[Eric J]

Knowledge of Morse code was an international requirement, but there was 
no speed requirement.

Anyone who remembers the "incentive licensing" debates of the mid-60s 
knows the Morse requirement in the U.S. was clearly intended to be 
restrictive by many hams if not most. Incentive licensing intentionally 
took away privileges with a code speed requirement that persisted until 
the fairly recent no-code licensing.

I've always been a cw op. I lived in Japan when I was 12 and heard hams 
talking on my SW-54. I had no interest in that at all until I learned 
about hams using Morse code. I've been 90%+ CW since. Definitely not by 
choice, but I took General, Advanced and Extra before FCC examiners in 
Boston and Long Beach.

Eric KE6US

On 11/13/2017 10:04 AM, Edward R Cole wrote:
> The purpose of requiring CW was perhaps not to be restrictive - but it 
> had exactly that effect.