As an international treaty requirement Morse knowledge
has died as of 7/5/03:

The IARU web site has release it final report on WRC 2003.

You can read the full report at: http://www.iaru.org/rel030703.html

The final version of S25.5 & S25.6 a

25.5 §3 1) Administrations shall determine whether or not a person
seeking a licence to operate an amateur station shall demonstrate
the ability to send and receive texts in Morse code signals.

25.6 2) Administrations shall verify the operational and technical
qualifications of any person wishing to operate an amateur station.
Guidance for standards of competence may be found in the
most recent version of Recommendation ITU-RM.1544.

They say the effective date is July 5, 2003.

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK

"Bill Sohl" wrote:

As an international treaty requirement Morse knowledge
has died as of 7/5/03:


Oh, boy. Now we can start the speculation and rumors about when the FCC
itself will do something in response to that. This "discussion" should be
good for a few months of argument in this newsgroup. Too late - I see that
has already started.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/