You must have been upset too when states eliminated mandatory
testing on manual gearbox autos and allowed testing to be done
using any car.

Not me, just the folks filing their insurance claims and/or licking their
wounds after someone who didn't know how to negotiate the clutch AND the
brake pedal simultaneously rear-ended them at a red light.


....and, just as in CW... if people get on a cw band without learning cw,
they
will have a hard time navigating around and knowing what's going on. Those
who don't want to, though, won't have any problem.... just as only those who
tried to use a manual transmission but were only tested for an automatic
had problems. Stick with what you learned.

There was no reason to force anybody to learn how to drive a standard
if they were going to drive an automatic.

Again I repeat; i'd have no problem with requiring a cw test if you wanted
to
use cw on the cw portion of the band. But, that's out of the question, isn't
it?
we're going to stay in the past and not keep up with progress and force even
people who will forever plan to use automatic transmissions to learn how to
run a standard.

Clint
KB5ZHT, living in reality and modern times.