[BC] FCC DROPS ALL HAM CW TESTING

[Dave Dunsmoor]

> >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


This should have been done 30+ years ago. CW has a place
and is quite useful in picking out signal from the noise, but it's
no longer the proper "entrance exam" to amateur radio.

Actually, the proper entrance exam would consist of math,
electronics and gentlemanly behavior, none of which exist
today in the exams, to any significant degree anyway.

Dave Dunsmoor, KB?CVX (extra, kept my original call).