"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
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"Hans K0HB" wrote:

"Kim W5TIT" wrote
One: no one should be kept out of the ARS--let
them get their license and stand or fail on their merit.

You can't really mean that! I do not support continuation
of the Morse test, but to suggest that we should just hand
out licenses to anyone regardless of demonstrated
qualification and let them "stand or fail on their merit" is
the silliest notion I have seen here yet. (snip)


I imagine she said that within the context of this discussion, Hans (the
removal of the code test, with the written tests intact). In that regard,
"let them get their license and stand or fail on their merit." I happen to
agree with her. We shouldn't be trying to exclude anyone just because of
who
or what they are (CB'ers or whatever). If they can pass the written tests
and meet the citizenship laws, they should be allowed to participate. If
they screw up later, that is the time to force them out.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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



You and your ilk 'may have' had a point with the cw set at 20 and possibly
even at 13. But 5 wpm, a multiple guess, given by volunteer examiners
without all the strain and stress of a FCC session, can not be serious now.

All it comes across is as; Im just too lazy to take 2 weeks of ten minutes
a day to memorize the Morse characters. Good grief at 5 wpm you could copy
every third word and guess the test to completion.

Give it a rest.

Dan/W4NTI