"jakdedert" wrote:

: IMHO, requiring a code test is like requiring someone to know how to
: reupholster their car in order to get a drivers license. It's unlikely that
: they will ever use the knowledge.
please state if you have tried to learn/pass the morse test.



:
: OTOH, I've seen a number of very simplistic technical questions posted
: lately in this and in other forums, by 'hams' who should know better....
and i've seen plenty of no-coders howl and cry out loud for not being
allowed on hf , all because they were being *forced* to learn morse
code...

and at the same time kept very quiet about being *forced* to learn
ohm's law, the series resitor sum, the parallel capacitor formula, the
parallel resistor formula, and above all, the relationship between the
speed of light,frequency and wavelength

and kept very quiet about being *forced* to learn regulations about
various regulations governing what callsign letters to use when operating
on a boat in a river,,,when some of them will never ever be on a boat in
a river in their lives !!!