Joe Guthart wrote:
What's going on here ... the talk of restructuring to remove morse code
requirements has been going on for over 18 months. Many, many countries
have already removed the morse code requirement to gain access to HF. Sure
there's been a lot of backlash from those who still want to keep code alive.
I know this is the government, but, what is taking so long? Can't they come
to some decision quickly. Anyone have a proposed timeline of when this will
be settled.



The proposals to keep code for extras but not generals probably
make little sense to the FCC. The main attraction of removing
the code test completely is less regulatory burden on everyone.
And that no other service uses Morse code anymore doesn't
help pro coders much either.