[BC] FCC DROPS ALL HAM CW TESTING

[Rich Wood]

------ At 04:42 PM 12/16/2006, Rob Atkinson wrote: -------

>The wholesale elimination of a Morse code requirement for all
>license classes ends a longstanding national and international
>regulatory tradition in the requirements to gain access to Amateur
>Radio frequencies below 30 MHz.

I'm so glad I no longer moderate an Amateur Radio forum. All Hell is 
going to break loose. Extra Class licensees will be considered no 
better than no-code techs by those who studied code at the original 
speed and have long since forgotten it. I'm almost afraid to drop in 
to see the mayhem.

Rich
KF2JO


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