RADIOA HAMS: IT WILL NO LONGER BE NECESSARY TO KNOW MORSE
(AGI) - Rome, Italy, July 23 - To gain an amateur radio

operator's licence it will no longer be necessary to take

a test in Morse Code. Communications Minister, Mario

Landolfi, has signed the decree to eliminate such a test

already abolished some time ago by other countries. "The

Morse alphabet is certainly not pensioned off, but it is -

Landolfi said - a decision due to technological evolution

and the necessity of changing with the times. The bodies

that carried out the tests will remain active, as I have

proposed, for young people and fans, continuing to

recall the importance of the Morse Code for over 160

years. And furthermore there will be a room dedicated to

this at the Museum of Post and Telecommunications in

Rome." (AGI) -