KØHB wrote:

"Michael Coslo" wrote in message
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No other part of the testing is a skill.


My point EXACTLY, Mike.

While there are many skills associated with our hobby, only one of those skills
is singled out for a required demonstration.

Interestingly, if that skill is so vital as to need a skill demonstration, it
would seem that no-one who had not been tested would be allowed to use it on the
air. Yet a basic Technician licensee is perfectly free to use Morse on the air
without having passed a Morse test. So much for the need for a demonstration
before a license grant!


I see it as a license progression thing. The Morse code is the skill
demonstration, and HF access is the carrot.

I know someone who is going to bust my chops now!!! 8^)


- Mike KB3EIA -