I hope it never goes threw, this proposal. I used to be in favour of it,
that of course was before I grasp the concept of cw. Now that I pretty much
know it, there's no way I'd want that taken out of the exam. If I recall
correctly, my wanting morse code exempt had to do with more less laziness
and also the need for instant gratification. Now that I've worked hard and
to this day, still building my station, I'm glad I was patient. I ended up
being rewarded just the same. The people who apply for no code tech have it
very good as it is. Think about it this way, fifteen years ago before
echolink and irlp came out, all one had was perhaps vhf, uhf, and 6 meters.
For the most part, you weren't working the world accept for some kind of
band opening on 6 maybe. Now with internet connected with repeaters and
other frequencies it's not that bad. At least these guys can talk over seas,
even though, it's not actual radio communications. Even still, the basic
license holders have a lot more to play with then before. Then if they chose
to upgrade there are steps they have to follow. The cw should be amongst
those things. At the very least since I wasn't very good at theory, I relied
on my ability to copy. So sometimes that ability can be a fall back if you
haven't anything else. If anything I hope they keep the code, so if you
aren't confident at the more difficult part of the test, you can at least
make an attempt at the cw.
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