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"Tony Hwang" wrote in message news:21xPb.205544$JQ1.46984@pd7tw1no... Helmut wrote: nice list, ergo and, BTW, I am NOT from the USA, I am a HAM since 1990, CALLSIGNS OE8SOQ and DD9XX, what are you guys going to do, if you hear a station from lets say VK, GB, DL, HB9, and many others, among them rare DX countries? First thing to ask wether or not they did pass the CW Test? and then not continuing the QSO?? Would this be polite? hamlike? How would your reaction be if some DX ham offends you like that? The proposed changes in the ARRL paper saying, that your FCC will grant lifetime credit for CW all previous licenced novices and techs. All techs will have general privileges. Will you stop working them on the bands? Will you resist to give them the point for ten-ten, WAS or whatever they are chasing? Will you first go to buckmaster or QRZ and look up the callsign to make shure not to talk to a NON-CW TESTED? This looks like to me as it was down the years in your country when no white one would have shook hands with a black man, or driven on the same bus. It is just RASISM. Will you let the best hobby in the world go down the sewer pipe just for beeing too proud of taking the CW test some time ago? I think, that there is no question about the historical weight of CW for radio comunications worldwide. Nowadays it has no more commercial nor official impact. It seems to me, that it is the same as knowing how to write on one of those old TRIUMPH Typwriters or handle one of those old TTY monsters whith the punched paperstrip. It is a great handycraft to be able to do this, but is is no more neccesary to learn how to write on one of those old machines. Ask someone who grew up with the PC keybord to do this - what will happen? In my homecountry, Austria, they dropped the requirements for CW test end of last year. BUT they stated in that law, that CW test can be required by the applicants in future, as long as the authority can supply CW-EXAMINERS. BTW, the former nocode Test was the same as for HF, just no CW. So every Austrian licencee is tested like an EXTRA in the US, exept the CW. And this is the same in all of the EUROPEAN countries. Just my half EURO worth Helmut OE8SOQ Hi, Helmut For me it is not about learning CW. Looking back the history of ham radio, I am wondering about the quality of today's operators. Majority of new ones are just a bunch of glorified CB'ers. That's where my beef is. Dropping CW requirement is fine with me. And written test is a joke. Most don't even know which way current flows in a diode or how to solder. I have better idea, just sell the licences with full previledge for 1000.00 each to anyone. Getting driver's licence is harder than getting a ham ticket now. 73, Tony, VE6CGX |
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