Mike Coslo wrote:

Alun wrote:

The French have been waitng for some time for a government minister
to sign the rule change abolishing their code test. It was signed on
the 4th, and will take effect when published in the official journal,
probably either on the 14th or 21st of May, 2004.



Have any numbers on the impact of this Morse code abolition? The
earliest countries to dump Morse should have some numbers that reflect
the change one way or the other.

- Mike KB3EIA -

More likely you will see a lot of existing hams upgrading, like what
happened
after Restructuring in the USA. Do all French no-coders get access to
all of
HF? Or just some small subbands? Likely they will still need to take and
pass some written tests to get access to all of HF.

Robert Casey wrote in
:

Mike Coslo wrote:

Alun wrote:

The French have been waitng for some time for a government minister
to sign the rule change abolishing their code test. It was signed on
the 4th, and will take effect when published in the official journal,
probably either on the 14th or 21st of May, 2004.



Have any numbers on the impact of this Morse code abolition? The
earliest countries to dump Morse should have some numbers that reflect
the change one way or the other.

- Mike KB3EIA -

More likely you will see a lot of existing hams upgrading, like what
happened
after Restructuring in the USA. Do all French no-coders get access to
all of
HF? Or just some small subbands? Likely they will still need to take
and pass some written tests to get access to all of HF.


They will all get the whole thing. Unlike here, they took the same theory.
This is the most common scenario in Europe. Most of the hams in Europe are
now licenced for all the HF bands.