Dee Flint wrote:
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The Japanese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications announced a
reduction of Morse Code test requirements on May 24th, 2005.


Interesting that they chose not to eliminate it entirely given the change in
treaty requirements.

Yes, Dee, *very* interesting!

Any info on their rationale?


None so far. But it's noteworthy that it took them so long to make the
change, and it won't be effective form several months yet.

The number of JA amateur station licenses has been steadily declining
for about 10 years, even with their nocodetest 4th class HF license. It
will be interesting to see what happens to the number of JA hams with
these changes.

73 de Jim, N2EY