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November 4th 04, 11:58 AM

(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
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(William) writes:

Dave Heil wrote in message
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Len Over 21 wrote:

There's no reasoning with emotional belief systems...such as the
PCTA's insistence that all who come after must jump through the
same hoops they had to when younger.

You have a point. There is no reasoning with emotional belief systems.
Take a guy who believes that those tested in amateur radio are "jumping
through hoops" or that the testing elements given today are the same as
those in years past. How would you deal with such a guy?

True enough. The Volunteer Examiners are giving Farnsworth exams
rather than the FCC/Part 97 specified Morse Code exams.

The FCC still hasn't updated its regulations on U.S. amateur radio
(Part 97, Title 47 C.F.R) in regards to test element 1 on morse
code. The referenced CCIR document has been superseded by
the ITU. Neither is there a specific definition of "word rate" that is
clear and unambiguous.

A past FCC "decision" was the tacit "approval" of VECs to allow
Farnsworth spacing in testing, yet that has never been officially
approved (except by the ARRL, the other "officiating" body in U.S.
amateur radio) nor does it appear in any regulation errata or other
corrections. The appearance (on the surface) is that Farnsworth
spacing is "legal" simply because the FCC hasn't bothered to
correct its own regulations for over a dozen years.

"Dave" handles his emotional belief system in the barbarian's
way - either Believe in Him and His or be subject to all kinds of
heckling, cat-calling, personal insults, and the like. It is "Dave's"
Way or the highway. "Dave" is Boss. Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

It is a sad state of affairs the the organization that specifies a
Morse Code Exam cannot define Morse Code. Usurpers of regulatory
authority took it upon themselves up the reduced 5 WPM rate to a
healthy 13-15 WPM rate in defiance of Part 97.