IARU Says "Remove Code", (Excerpted from the ARRL Letter)

"The focus was on the future when the International Amateur Radio
Union Administrative Council met September 6-7 in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. In the aftermath of WRC-03, the council urged
IARU member-societies to call to the attention of their administrations
"the desirability of adopting specific changes in their domestic
regulations for the amateur and amateur-satellite services, so that
they will be consistent with the revised Article 25 of the international
Radio Regulations."

In that vein, the IARU governing body called for the removal of Morse
code as an examination requirement to operate on HF.

The council reiterated its stance first taken in 2001 that Morse code
proficiency "as a qualifying criterion for an HF amateur license is no
longer relevant to the healthy future of amateur Radio."

"IARU policy is to support the removal of Morse code testing as a
requirement for an amateur license to operate on frequencies below
30 MHz," the IARU Administrative Council resolved.

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I particularly love that last paragraph .. they're finally moving from
the past into, at least, the present.

Carl - wk3c