Bill Sohl wrote:
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Bill Sohl wrote:
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Bill Sohl wrote:

(SNIP)

FCC also
left 13wpm and 20wpm as requirements for many years
with the lack of change/elimination of said 13/20 wpm
elements supposedly waiting for a "consensus" in the
amateur ranks.

Perhaps. Yet anyone who could come up with a doctor's
note could get a medical waiver. Such notes were never
hard to get.

But in the overall perspective waivers were used only by
a relatively small percentage of new hams.

I've heard figures as high as 10%.

Perhaps, but that can't be verified easily.

Ditto the number of Conditionals that "got waivers in other ways." ;^)