"Brenda Ann" wrote in message

.. I started like most with a Novice
ticket and 5WPM code. I taught it to myself by writing a BASIC program to
send to myself using my old VIC20 computer. A month later, I got my Tech
Plus ticket. I never could work my way up to 14WPM because I have to
'translate' in my head (like I do with all the human languages I have
studied), so didn't get my General till April 2000.


That's why I think it's kinda unfair to lessen the requirements but CW will
be gone eventually. It's becoming a bygone era.

B.H.