Alun Palmer wrote in message . ..
Dave Heil wrote in
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Alun Palmer wrote:

"Bill Sohl" wrote in
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"Larry Roll K3LT" wrote in message
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In article , Alun Palmer
writes:

EI is the 7th country to abolish code testing by my reckoning

Ireland: Beautiful country, lovely people, but the same dumbed-down
hams! Not to worry, I'm sure us Yanks won't be far behind!
73 de Larry, K3LT

Newsflash! - Singapore has abolished the code test. Now there are
eight.

Wow! That's quite a policy statement from a country with a little more
than 120 radio amateurs and it comes hot on the heels of the big move by
Ireland with its slightly more than 1,500 hams.

Dave K8MN


I just did a quick recount, and 9V is the 9th country, not the 8th. They
are Switzerland, the UK, Belgium, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands,
Norway, Ireland and Singapore.

The funny thing is the only no-coder I have yet heard on HF was PE1RMZ. I
know that this is a Dutch no-code call from the time I worked PE1DUP
through a UK repeater. It takes time to get on HF I suppose. I was
surprised that no-one appeared to have been ready in advance.

You can try to pretend that 9V and EI don't matter, but look at the bigger
picture. You know where this will all end, and a d*mn good thing it is
too. If it wasn't for the bl**dy code test I would have been licenced and
on HF at 14.

How do you reconcile your "plight" with the fact that many youngters
under 14 have passed 20 wpm code tests?

w3rv