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K=D8HB wrote:
"Michael Coslo" wrote in message
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No other part of the testing is a skill.

My point EXACTLY, Mike.

While there are many skills associated with our hobby, only one of
those skills
is singled out for a required demonstration.

Interestingly, if that skill is so vital as to need a skill
demonstration, it
would seem that no-one who had not been tested would be allowed to
use it on the
air. Yet a basic Technician licensee is perfectly free to use Morse
on the air
without having passed a Morse test. So much for the need for a
demonstration
before a license grant!

73, de Hans, K0HB

I wonder how VE Dee would accomodate the disabled in the Tower
Climbing
pass/fail skill exam?


Not that Tower climbing will likely ever become an issue with the
exam,

I'm going to advocate it during the next NPRM.

but
if it were, then I'd suggest there would be questions relating to the
proper
safety techniques of doing such a job,

No questions. They need to climb a 60 foot tower, haul up the coax and
an HF-tribander, fasten it, point it north, and make the connections.

wherein "actual" "physical"
demonstration is not needed nor required.

But it is. Otherwise, how would we know they could do it?

Given that - a wheel chair bound
person "could" pass those parts of an exam. I can't fathom tower
climbing
becoming a major issue.

Yet Morse Code has become a major issue. Just because not everyone is
going to have a tower is no excuse for not being able to demonstrate
the ability.