In article , Dick Carroll
writes:

Clint wrote:

If you refuse to learn how to handle radio's most basic mode you can never
be
able to regard yourself as fully qualified in ham radio communciations.
That's just the Way it Is. Live with it.

I'm sorry but that is YOUR oppinion. What counts is the decision of those in
authority, namely the FCC.

Son, you might want to learn somewhere along the way that opinion is
sometimes congruent with fact, sometimes not.

"Congruent?" :-)

No matter what the FCC says or does, it can't alter facts. And nowhere have
they ever said that a no-code license is a fully qualified ham.

The FDA qualifies ham, senior.

The FCC does NOT use the term "ham" in Part 97. That's the LAW.

For NEW amateur radio licensees, the FCC "qualifies" radio amateurs in
three license classes. One of those is the "no-code-test" Technician.

In fact, the
retired Chief of the Amateur and Citizen's Division of FCC (now called
something
else) stated in his comments on the NCVEC pettion
(which BTW he helped write) that it was an oxymoron to expect an Extra class
ham to be a expert on ham radio if he doesn't know Morse code. Thus he
supports
a code test for Extras.

That is a RETIREE's OPINION, senior.

And it should be obvious, to anyone who actually owns and uses a thought
process
- when Morse code is a widely-used mode within ham radio, *anyone* who can't
use it simply and factually *cannot* be a fully qualified ham - No matter
what
license or privileges the FCC gives them.

The FCC does NOT agree with you, senior.

ANYONE granted a US amateur radio license, ANY CLASS, is a licensed
radio amateur.

That's just the way it is. Live with it.


And YOU will have to live with the decisions THEY
make.

Which can't change facts. Facts are immutable. Live with it. Any ham not able
to operate CW is simply and factually not fully qualified.

For the 1930s or on Fantasy Island where you seem to live... ?

LHA