"Dick Carroll" wrote in message
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Clint wrote:


If you refuse to learn how to handle radio's most basic mode you can
never
be
able to regard yourself as fully qualified in ham radio communciations.
That's just the Way it Is. Live with it.


I'm sorry but that is YOUR oppinion. What counts is the decision of
those in
authority, namely the FCC.

Son, you might want to learn somewhere along the way that opinion is
sometimes
congruent with fact, sometimes not.

No matter what the FCC says or does, it can't alter facts. And nowhere
have
they ever said that a no-code license is a fully qualified ham.

So far the UK, Netherlands and several other countries have done
exactly that. Once all code testing is ended by the FCC will you
accept that action as supporting the FCC position that
morse isn't needed to be a "fully qualified ham?"
Additionally, I don't recall anywhere seeing any FCC reference
to the concept of a "fully qualified ham". Is that a new license
class?

In fact, the
retired Chief of the Amateur and Citizen's Division of FCC (now called
something
else) stated in his comments on the NCVEC pettion
(which BTW he helped write) that it was an oxymoron to expect an Extra
class
ham to be a expert on ham radio if he doesn't know Morse code. Thus he
supports
a code test for Extras.

Does he speak for the FCC today?

And it should be obvious, to anyone who actually owns and uses a thought
process
- when Morse code is a widely-used mode within ham radio, *anyone* who
can't use
it simply and factually *cannot* be a fully qualified ham - No matter
what
license or privileges the FCC gives them.

What a crock. On that basis, if you can't speak Spanish, Chineese, and
several
other languages commonly used by hams around the globe, then you
shouldn't be considered "qualified" either.

And YOU will have to live with the decisions THEY
make.


Which can't change facts. Facts are immutable. Live with it. Any ham not
able
to operate CW is simply and factually not fully qualified.

Your Opinion yes, a fact? Not at all. And that's an opinion
I'm entitled to.

Cheers as always,
Bill K2UNK