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.

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

Carl - wk3c

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

Carl - wk3c


hmmm, yes, but the PCTA's won't see it as being noteworthy or
deserving of consideration. They'll dismiss it, say THAT body of
people is ignorant and just doesn't know what's right....

"You fools! Don't you know that by living in the past we are best
prepared to meet the challenges and demands of the future?!?!?!?!"

Clint
KB5ZHT

In article , "Clint" rattlehead at
computron dot net writes:


"You fools! Don't you know that by living in the past we are best
prepared to meet the challenges and demands of the future?!?!?!?!"

Clint
KB5ZHT

Well, Clint, you said it, not me! I'm glad you're starting to see the light!

73 de Larry, K3LT

Well, Clint, you said it, not me! I'm glad you're starting to see the
light!

73 de Larry, K3LT


I, I see your point.
I will be the absolute BEST driver of a modern internal combustion engine-
driven automobile if I first take a blacksmith's apprenticeship and learn
to shoe a horse.

Yes. Quite logical.

Clint
KB5ZHT

In article , "Clint" rattlehead at
computron dot net writes:

Well, Clint, you said it, not me! I'm glad you're starting to see the
light!

73 de Larry, K3LT


I, I see your point.
I will be the absolute BEST driver of a modern internal combustion engine-
driven automobile if I first take a blacksmith's apprenticeship and learn
to shoe a horse.

Yes. Quite logical.

Clint
KB5ZHT

Well, Clint, that kind of cynicism may seem to be amusing to some, but
just goes to demonstrate a lack of any truly logical argument which
supports your position. Therefore, it, and you, are easily dismissed.

73 de Larry, K3LT

Larry Roll K3LT wrote:

In article , "Clint" rattlehead at
computron dot net writes:


Well, Clint, you said it, not me! I'm glad you're starting to see the

light!

73 de Larry, K3LT


I, I see your point.
I will be the absolute BEST driver of a modern internal combustion engine-
driven automobile if I first take a blacksmith's apprenticeship and learn
to shoe a horse.

Yes. Quite logical.

Clint
KB5ZHT


Well, Clint, that kind of cynicism may seem to be amusing to some, but
just goes to demonstrate a lack of any truly logical argument which
supports your position. Therefore, it, and you, are easily dismissed.

I don't know about you, Larry, but I like to know a lot about
everything I do. That goes for cars, amateur radio, computers,
housework, history, or whatever. I suspect you feel at least somewhat
this way too. Strange that there is a whole culture built up that
celebrates ignorance.

That's why if my car breaks down on the road, I stand a good chance of
getting it running again, why I know it isn't likely the F.C.C. won't
test me on the design of a 1/4 wave dipole, and why I knew that there
wasn't any special callsigns for non-coded amateurs.

Not that I don't make mistakes, but I don't come into newsgroups acting
as if I know everything either! 8^)

- Mike KB3EIA -

In article , ospam
(Larry Roll K3LT) writes:

In article , "Clint" rattlehead at
computron dot net writes:

Well, Clint, you said it, not me! I'm glad you're starting to see the
light!

73 de Larry, K3LT


I, I see your point.
I will be the absolute BEST driver of a modern internal combustion engine-
driven automobile if I first take a blacksmith's apprenticeship and learn
to shoe a horse.

Yes. Quite logical.

Clint
KB5ZHT

Well, Clint, that kind of cynicism may seem to be amusing to some, but
just goes to demonstrate a lack of any truly logical argument which
supports your position.

Roll doesn't have any valid arguments for His opinion, therefore he has
to attack the character of anyone "daring" to speak against the radio
god's mighty edicts.

Therefore, it, and you, are easily dismissed.

The radio god spoke again...with a mighty clap of silence the dark
lightning shown on the face of the newsgroup. All who viewed it
giggled at the pretense of god-hood.

"Carl R. Stevenson" wrote

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

Carl - wk3c


Carl,

As you know, I do not support continuing the Morse exam. Other well
meaning people disagree with me and I respect their disagreement.

It is a puzzle to me why you continue to make a point of "rubbing
peoples nose in it". Perhaps "well meaning" doesn't apply in your case.

Hans




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It is a puzzle to me why you continue to make a point of "rubbing
peoples nose in it". Perhaps "well meaning" doesn't apply in your case.

Hans


Carl hates CW so much, because he figures his CW, not lack of motavation over
the years, had kept him out of HF.

Hans Kohb wrote:
"Carl R. Stevenson" wrote


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

Carl - wk3c



Carl,

As you know, I do not support continuing the Morse exam. Other well
meaning people disagree with me and I respect their disagreement.

It is a puzzle to me why you continue to make a point of "rubbing
peoples nose in it". Perhaps "well meaning" doesn't apply in your case.

At least I'm not the only person who thinks tthat he is doing that.
Carl apparently LIKES to rub our noses in it. Carl is perhaps the
poorest "winner" I've ever seen.

- Mike KB3EIA -