Dave wrote:
George Orwell wrote:

Al Klein said:


Eliminating a requirement is dumbing things down. But no one would
expect you to be able to understand that.


Well, let me ask, from the point of view of a potential noob to the hobby. What use is the code requirements?

The 'use' is something you just can't understand. The 'use' is a commitment of
time and talent which adds value to the license. The 'use' is investment.

In other words, you just can't come up with a valid
reason other than some emotional-traditional one, can you?

What is the return on that "investment?" Being good enough to
do 1930s radio operating? In a diversified HOBBY?

What you really seem to be saying is that "everyone has to do it
because you did it...so there, nyah, nyah..." :-)


Balance of original post has been REDACTED.

You have been redacted.

You have been rejected.

You have been inducted.

Here's a news flash: The job of the FCC (the agency that grants
amateur radio licenses...and hundreds of others...) is to regulate
and mitigate all USA civil radio. It does not tailor ham tests to
some nebulous "tradition" of the Archaic Radiotelegraphy
Society (ARS). I.E., it has no reason to demand anyone take a
manual morse code test except under the lobbying by the ARRL.

If you want to "preserve" the ARS as requiring morsemanship for
all privileges below 30 MHz, then you need to make up a Petition
and submit it to the FCC. You can even ask them to RENAME
the ARS to Archaic Radiotelegraphy Society. The FCC allows
such petitioning. They even explain how to do it on their website.

Tell the FCC that you insist on maintaining 1930s standards of
radio communication well beyond 2030 by keeping that morse
code test forever and ever. The ARRL will love you for it. Go for
it!