In article , Dick Carroll
writes:

Well you can keep a close watch on developments and keep your fingers
crossed... but whether or not the code test requirement is dropped, it's
still your opinion. Nothing more.

My "l;iking" has nothing to do with it, Clint, just as yours similarly does
not.. If a ham doesn't know Morse code, and can't operat it on the air,
there's
no simply way he can be considered a fully qualified ham, and certainly not an
expert.

THE WAY YOU HAD TO DO IT IS HOW EVERYONE ELSE MUST DO!

The Extra class is named as the Expert clase of radio amateur.
So that's just how it is. Has nothing whatever to do with either your or my
opinion.

Tsk, tsk, tsk...self-promoting definition time again? :-)

That "clase" is called 'Amateur Extra' in the rules, DICK.

Nothing at all about the extra being "expert."

Note that the FCC specifically identifies that "clase" as AMATEUR Extra.

That "clase" has the most privileges of any of the three license "clases,"
DICK. That's all, nothing more.

The remainder of the "expertise" is in your fantasies.

Happy dreaming.

LHA