N2EY wrote:

AJ Lake wrote:

Do you have the [treaty] sources?

Look up the results of the various World Radio Conferences down
through the years. A good starting place would be the 1947 Atlantic
City conference.

So you don't have a source. Maybe I gave in too quickly... 8-O

The QST archives are useful if you're a member of ARRL.

I haven't been an ARRL member since the dark days.

You need to look further back than the 1980s.

I tried hard to find a source to prove me right, but no luck. That's
why I wanted to see your source that proved me wrong.

That if a license is supposed to be about experimenting, and Morse
Code/CW is the best mode to use for much of that experimenting, it
made sense to require a basic Morse Code test for that license.

Wouldn't it be better to give a solder test to an experimenter?

Actually I don't think the 5 wpm Morse Code test was too much to ask.
But that's ancient history now.

Is that the old 'weeder' reason or the old 'I had to do it' reason?

EME is possible with a 100 watts. But CW ain't up to it. It takes
digital signal processing...

Actually that's not true. Hams have done EME on microwave frequencies
with less than 100 watts and CW. But it takes a high gain antenna

With digital processing it can be done with a Yagi. You think we ought
to add a separate digital processing test to the Tech?