I am not privy to the UK and where they have gone. What are you alluding to?
73 fer nw es gud DX,
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Bob AD5VJ(AAR6VM)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> d.e.warnick@comcast.net
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 4:45 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM]
>
> I agree. That's why I stated that we could not have changed
> it, but I still feel that our voices should habve been heard.
> You're right on the future. Just look at there the UK has
> gone. Sad, but the times, they are a changin'.
> Dave
> WA3MKB
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "n4dsp" <n4dsp@triad.rr.com>
>
> > WA3MKB,
> > Nice post and but I have to disagree with you on one point.
> You state
> > that the amateur radio operators who failed to write the FCC
> > unintentionally allowed the removal of the requirement of
> Morse Code
> > from all license class examinations is inaccurate. The truth of the
> > matter is the FCC had an agenda and no matter if 99% of operators
> > expressed their opinion of retaining the Morse Code requirement it
> > would not have mattered. Look at the route other countries
> throughout
> > the world have gone. One does not have to look past
> Washington to see
> > the lack of leadership in these matters. Case in point-BPL.
> > Also it is my opinion, and please note the word opinion,
> that within
> > 20 years there will be no examinations whatsoever. Just pay your 20
> > dollars with your completed application. If these guys can push
> > through no code then it makes everything else much easier.
> Just look
> > at the VEC examinations and how much of a joke they are. A
> person can
> > memorize the answers in 3 weeks and pass the Extra test with flying
> > colors. I know people who have done it but that will also
> be a bygone era.
> >
> > 73
> > john-n4dsp
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From:
> > To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
> > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 12:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM]
> >
> >
> > > Thank you KC4ATU. You have echoed the feelings of
> thousands. Every amateur
> > > operator who did not want to see the code dropped, but
> who did not write
> > > the FCC, at the urging of a very hard working ARRL, has
> unintentionally
> > > allowed this to happen. We could not have changed it
> anyway, but our
> > > voices should have been heard.
> > > So what can we do now? Continue to operate CW as we have
> in the past.
> > > Enjoy it and show the world that it is still a viable
> force in our
> > > communications.
> > > That's it. Let's focus our energies in the positive side
> of things. The
> > > ARRL has done a heck of a lot to keep us informed of what
> is happening and
> > > to enable us to operate at all
> > >
> > > WA3MKB
> > >
> > > -------------- Original message --------------
> > > From: "bill rowlett"
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> >From: "AD5VJ Bob"
> > >> >
> > >> > So tell me something:
> > >> >
> > >> >I am a member of many many lists on Yahoo and have not
> caught up reading
> > >> >all of them today because of this news that the ARRL
> > >> >dropped the ball on Amateur Radio again.
> > >> >
> > >> >Not one response that I read so far, was in favor of
> this move on any of
> > >> >those lists.
> > >> >
> > >> >So my question is:
> > >> >How about we form a League of some kind that will
> protect and represent
> > >> >our
> > >> >interests as LICENSED Amateur Radio Operators?
> > >> >
> > >> >Sounds like the unlicensed folks have their League
> already, we just pay
> > >> >for
> > >> >it annually.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> This has been coming for many years. You and I have had
> ample time to yet
> > >> the FCC know how we feal about it. The international
> community has gone
> > >> this
> > >> route and now so do we. The ARRL was not behind a total
> elimination. They
> > >> wanted to retain it for Extra Class, so get off the lets
> bash the ARRL.
> > >> They
> > >> are not correct all the time and neither are you or me,
> so cool it with
> > >> the
> > >> bashing, grow up.
> > >>
> > >> When CW was droped from the shipping industry and from
> the military, the
> > >> hand writing was on the wall. Freight trains are hard to stop
> > >>
> > >> What now, USE it, be EXCITED about it, and TEACH it. It
> will last as a
> > >> mode
> > >> of operation, AM is still here.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 73, KC4ATU
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > > -----Original Message-----
> > >> > > From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> > >> > > [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Douglas Shock
> > >> > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 9:55 PM
> > >> > > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> > >> > > Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM]
> > >> > >
> > >> > > what a shame
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On 12/15/06, Ken N9VV wrote:
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > Looks like it is for real!
> > >> > > >
> http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269012A1.pdf
> > >> > > > de ken n9vv (old CW Dinosaur)
> > >> > > >
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