Dee Flint wrote:
"Paul Keinanen" wrote in message
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On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:25:01 GMT, Slow Code wrote:


No, the bands are going to get worse over the long haul. We got people
that don't want to be skilled knowledgable hams. If they're too lazy to
learn CW they are going to be too lazy to learn other things too.
Technical discussions will decline. It will start to sound like CB.

From the European perspective, I do not understand this discussion.
Most European countries (except Russia) removed the CW requirement
after a few months of the ITU WRC decision that CW test is not
required at frequencies below 30 MHz.

We have the ARRL wispering in the FCCs ear.

I haven't observed any problems with persons using the HF bands
without the CW test.

Listen for yourself, can you tell which European operator has passed
the CW test and which one has not passed the test.

Paul OH3LWR

Other countries are not a problem.

No country should be a problem.

Personally I do not attempt to predict
what will happen in the US. However some fear that with easy licensing and
the lax enforcement here that there could potentially be serious problems.

Riley isn't doing his job?

I think what I wrote before one of the recent restructurings was, "What
I fear most about eliminating the Morse Code Exam is a lack of
enforcement, and what I fear most about maintaining the Status Quo is a
lack of enforcement."

A lack of enforcement is a lack of enforcement, and a Morse Code Exam
CANNOT be used as a substitute.

Be sure to collect evidence of USA violations and turn it in to Riley.
Don't just pass it to your OO.

They fear a repetition of what happened to the Citizens Band here. With
little to no enforcement of violations, that band became such a sewer that
you don't dare let kids listen to it. Recently two CB operators got into
a fight over the radio, sought each other out, and one was killed. It is
not the world we fear but ourselves.

Dee, N8UZE

There are loose cannons in Amateur Radio as well.