"Carl R. Stevenson" wrote in message
...

(If you say "the manufacturers" that's
baloney.
I haven't seen a SINGLE comment filed on the current round of petitions by
any manufacturer ...)

Carl - wk3c


Whether or not they're being honest or just spiteful, there's a lot of
hams that accuse the largest ham radio equipment producers of
financing the "beat the morse code" campaign (as they see it)...
the implied reasoning is that the producers & manufacturers stand
to gain more profit if the code testing is dropped and more hams
flood the market and buy thier products. A little too conspiratorial
for me but there's many who buy it.

Clint

"Clint" rattlehead at computron dot net wrote:

Whether or not they're being honest or just spiteful,
there's a lot of hams that accuse the largest ham
radio equipment producers of financing the "beat the
morse code" campaign (as they see it)... (snip) A
little too conspiratorial for me but there's many who
buy it.


I agree. Only a handful of companies have ever said anything publicly
about code testing and even less have stated a position on the matter. For
many of the larger companies, Amateur Radio is a tiny market. Even if this
market doubled in size, the profits would still be small compared to other
markets (military and so on). In other words, there's just not much
incentive for these companies to go out of their way to push towards the
elimination of code testing in an effort to manipulate this market. There is
even less incentive to finance an effort to do so.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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