"Joe Guthart" wrote in message
...
What's going on here ... the talk of restructuring to remove morse code
requirements has been going on for over 18 months. Many, many countries
have already removed the morse code requirement to gain access to HF.
Sure
there's been a lot of backlash from those who still want to keep code
alive.
I know this is the government, but, what is taking so long? Can't they
come
to some decision quickly. Anyone have a proposed timeline of when this
will
be settled.



I think the hams shot themselves in the foot on this one. There have been
at least 18 petitions regarding code/no-code and restructuring submitted to
the FCC. Each one of these had to be opened to comments. The FCC will have
to rule on each petition and then take time to digest them and consolidate
into a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking should they choose to proceed. Then
this NPR will have to be open to comments for awhile. On top of that keep
in mind that the FCC is drastically understaffed. Finally, the FCC
implemented a major restructuring in the year 2000. They may simply not
want to make any changes this soon.

Besides, how often (except in times of war) have you seen the government do
anything quickly.

I estimated July of 2005 and am beginning to think that even that was not a
conservative enough guess.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE