Bill:

Have you ever used IRC chat and "conversed" with a slow typist there?

It sucks, yes, I would allow for having one come up to speed before using
IRC chat, or hang in a newbie room until coming up-to-speed. That same
system would work well for Morse... let'em stay off the key and on a
"newbie frequency" until they get up to speed and have range of the whole
cw bandwidth... sounds logical to me!

John

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 04:06:27 +0000, Bill Sohl wrote:


"John Smith" wrote in message
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Bill:

Frankly, I think you should have to take a CW test... IF, and I say IF,
you are going to use CW, and perhaps they can "CW certify" a person to use
code--otherwise let them only use phone and machine protocols...

Do you also think one should take a keyboard (i.e. typing) test to
certify ability to use digital modes?

How about a speed profficiency test for using phonetics
in voice mode?

Bottom line, there is no minimum code speed required
for anyone to use morse code as a ham. That is the
case now and has always been the case.

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK