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"Bert Craig" wrote:
Nobody's forcing anybody to use it, just learn it...and only for HF privies. Given another statement in your reply ("unique skill...decoded by the human brain"), that statement is rather illogical, isn't it? If the "skill" tested is the ability to decode code with the human brain, it would seem one would have to "use" that ability at some level just to pass the test. At 5-wpm, it's more a demonstration of discipline than proficiency. That is where the true crux lies. The FCC doesn't have a mandate to test discipline. And, beyond the rules and good operating practices, we shouldn't expect it either. After all, we're not the military or a karate school. They've already reduced the emphasis by creating the no-code Technician ticket and further by reducing the required code speed for the General and Extra tickets. As I told Dee, the reasons quoted in my earlier message for reducing code (changes over last 50 years, no system dependant on code in many years, and so on) could just as easily be used to argue against a code test of any kind. In other words, how are those facts changed by a 5 wpm test instead of a 13 wpm test? Dwight Stewart (W5NET) http://www.qsl.net/w5net/ |
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