JJ wrote in message ...
Brian wrote:


But CW testing was implemented to limit the number of amateurs, not
grow the number. How much higher do you think it would have grown to
if ...


Huh? CW testing was implemented because when the Amateur Radio service
began with the Radio Act of 1912, CW was *the* main mode of
communication. The CW test was 5wpm, same as it is now. How did you ever
come up with the idiotic idea it was implemented to limit the number of
amateurs?

From the pages of QST. It was quoted in here several years ago - and
it does go back to that long ago era.