"Phil Kane" wrote in message
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 09:45:41 -0500, Kim W5TIT wrote:

The days when the monitoring stations would catch ham operators 2
or 3 kHz outside the band edge (especially in contests) are gone
forever. "Cruising" is no longer a daily activity.

Heh heh, and maybe CW is not so commonly understood by those at the FCC?
Phil?

Nope - I am told that the requirement still is 16 wpm for field
office enforcement agents and 20 wpm for monitoring techs - yes,
there still are those, just not as many because the mon stas are
all remoted to a central point now, where each can be brought up as
necessary by a single tech. Several of the field office agents are
ex-monitoring techs as well.

As long as Morse is permitted in any radio service for any purpose,
such as IDs in the land mobile services or "permissive" Morse in the
maritime services, or "permissive" Morse in the ARS, that job
requirement will stay.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane



Wow, Phil! I had no idea. And, I am glad to hear it.

Kim W5TIT


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