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actually, the decision was largely made from the results of a poll conducted
of canadian amateurs, of those who cared to respond, it was over whelming
the number who supported the no code hf license.
In fact, there was over whelming support from those who currently retained a
cw designation for dropping the code...so your statement about the general
public not being in charge is a little askew in this case.
I think the organization representing hams in canada did a very fair job of
getting public opinion and then put that public opinion forward in
recommendations that the government acted upon...it wasn't some higher ups
in the government arbitrarily deciding what should and shouldn't
be...perhaps this is the case in the US, remember, not everyone lives in the
US and not everyone shares the same social cultural and political views as
those who reside there.
Things do tend to be slightly different from country to country.
And no, canada isn't just like the US in the way the government works,
things are vastly different in reality.
I speak for myself and for canada no others.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: canadian regulation changes
> Colin, the problem isn't with people's knowledge or lack there of in the
use of
> Morse. The problem is that with scaling down amateur requirements until
they
> essentially become little more than a joke even for hf use people will
just go
> take their tech tests and be ready to go. At least when there was some
minimal
> code requirement in places there had to be a bit of work put forth to get
a
> license above a straight tech to use any hf. Of course, times used to be
that
> code was required to get on the air at all which I think was a bit much
but
> simply doing away with it seems a slap in the face to amateurs. As to
what
> governments do, don't even try and use that excuse lest we need to look at
the
> actions of governments from World War II through today. The general
population
> was not the ones who decided to have no code and certainly hams were not
the
> ones who made that decision.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
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