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Brian wrote:
But CW testing was implemented to limit the number of amateurs, not grow the number. How much higher do you think it would have grown to if ... Huh? CW testing was implemented because when the Amateur Radio service began with the Radio Act of 1912, CW was *the* main mode of communication. The CW test was 5wpm, same as it is now. How did you ever come up with the idiotic idea it was implemented to limit the number of amateurs? |
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JJ wrote in message ...
Brian wrote: But CW testing was implemented to limit the number of amateurs, not grow the number. How much higher do you think it would have grown to if ... Huh? CW testing was implemented because when the Amateur Radio service began with the Radio Act of 1912, CW was *the* main mode of communication. The CW test was 5wpm, same as it is now. How did you ever come up with the idiotic idea it was implemented to limit the number of amateurs? From the pages of QST. It was quoted in here several years ago - and it does go back to that long ago era. |
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