"Count Floyd" CountFloyd@MonsterChillerHorrorTheater wrote in
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:41:53 UTC, "gkb" wrote:

10 wpm novice, 20 wpm general and 35 wpm for extra class.
Yes, that's the ticket, back to the past. As if enough people weren't
abandoning ham radio already. I have never thought that code was
essential. It is just another "hoop" that someone has to jump
through. Once I passed the code test, I never used it again. Get
real, this is 2006, and with all the innovations on the radio
spectrum, code is the last thing on people's minds.


Dumbing it down cheapened the license, making being a radio amateur
nothing special. No wonder they leaving.

SC