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"Tony Hwang" wrote in message
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Helmut wrote:

nice list, ergo

and, BTW, I am NOT from the USA, I am a HAM since 1990, CALLSIGNS OE8SOQ
and
DD9XX,

what are you guys going to do, if you hear a station from lets say VK,
GB,
DL, HB9, and many others, among them rare DX countries? First thing to
ask
wether or not they did pass the CW Test? and then not continuing the
QSO??
Would this be polite? hamlike? How would your reaction be if some DX ham
offends you like that?
The proposed changes in the ARRL paper saying, that your FCC will grant
lifetime credit for CW all previous licenced novices and techs. All
techs
will have general privileges. Will you stop working them on the bands?
Will
you resist to give them the point for ten-ten, WAS or whatever they are
chasing? Will you first go to buckmaster or QRZ and look up the callsign
to
make shure not to talk to a NON-CW TESTED? This looks like to me as it
was
down the years in your country when no white one would have shook hands
with
a black man, or driven on the same bus. It is just RASISM. Will you let
the
best hobby in the world go down the sewer pipe just for beeing too proud
of
taking the CW test some time ago?

I think, that there is no question about the historical weight of CW for
radio comunications worldwide. Nowadays it has no more commercial nor
official impact. It seems to me, that it is the same as knowing how to
write
on one of those old TRIUMPH Typwriters or handle one of those old TTY
monsters whith the punched paperstrip. It is a great handycraft to be
able
to do this, but is is no more neccesary to learn how to write on one of
those old machines. Ask someone who grew up with the PC keybord to do
this -
what will happen?

In my homecountry, Austria, they dropped the requirements for CW test
end of
last year. BUT they stated in that law, that CW test can be required by
the
applicants in future, as long as the authority can supply CW-EXAMINERS.
BTW,
the former nocode Test was the same as for HF, just no CW. So every
Austrian licencee is tested like an EXTRA in the US, exept the CW. And
this
is the same in all of the EUROPEAN countries.

Just my half EURO worth

Helmut
OE8SOQ

Hi, Helmut
For me it is not about learning CW. Looking back the history of ham radio,
I am wondering about the quality of today's operators. Majority of new
ones are just a bunch of glorified CB'ers. That's where my beef is.
Dropping CW requirement is fine with me. And written test is a joke.
Most don't even know which way current flows in a diode or how to
solder. I have better idea, just sell the licences with full previledge
for 1000.00 each to anyone. Getting driver's licence is harder than
getting a ham ticket now.
73,
Tony, VE6CGX