"Rich" wrote in message
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"Elmer E Ing" wrote in message
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SEE PART 97
§97.501 Qualifying for an amateur operator license.
Each applicant must pass an examination for a new amateur operator
license
grant and for each change in operator class. Each applicant for the
class of
operator license grant specified below must pass, or otherwise receive
examination credit for, the following examination elements:

(a) Amateur Extra Class operator: Elements 1, 2, 3, and 4;

(b) General Class operator: Elements 1, 2, and 3;

(c) Technician Class operator: Element 2.


§97.503 Element standards.
(a) A telegraphy examination must be sufficient to prove that the
examinee
has the ability to send correctly by hand and to receive correctly by
ear
texts in the international Morse code at not less than the prescribed
speed,
using all the letters of the alphabet, numerals 0-9, period, comma,
question
mark, slant mark and prosigns AR, BT and SK.
Element 1: 5 words per minute.



"Keith" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:03:01 -0400, "Spamhater"
wrote:

It is very apparent you have yet to crack open a copy of Part 95

I have read part 95 and I don't recall ever seeing anything about a
morse
code
test.


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I know a bed ridden quad who dictated 20 wpm to his wife.He uses a straw
cw keyer.

There are many disabled who have passed CW exams. The only thing that these
bozos are whining about is they are too damned lazy to learn the code. 5 WPM
is the easiest thing in the world, like walking.... some just too lazy to
work for anything worth having. Mommy and Daddy must have spoon fed them all
their lives.

I don't have my manual in front of me to do verbatim rules, but code tests
for disabled can be done 1 letter at a time, sentence, etc. Stopped if need
be to allow the person time to divulge the message or character sent. As
long as it is sent with a "speed" setting to be as prescribed to work out at
5 WPM if sent all at once. In other words, speeding up or slowing down the
speed of the character will give it a different sound and could make it hard
to decipher at all if incorrectly sent. SO - you have a message consisting
of the prescribed number of characters and sent as necessary to the
handicapped party to allow them to decipher what is sent... THAT IS how a
disabled can be tested..... You can use "lazy" all you want in any form of
protest, it still comes out to LAZY.
.._.. .- --.. -.-- MOST of the info I related on exam giving to
Handicapped is covered in VE manuals, but should be found in FCC Rules as
well.

JMS.