[SECC] SEDXC Meeting

[Jay Pryor]

FYI, last night at the SEDXC meeting three votes were taken on the IARU 
recommendation that CW be eliminated as a requirement for licensing below 
30 Mhz.  All three votes were unanimous in opposition to the IARU 
recommendation.  A couple of the key points made in the discussion were:

1.  Although elimination of CW below 30 Mhz would not be a death knell for 
CW by itself, most expressed the fear that the next step would be reduction 
of band width for CW operations.  Some said they would not be strongly 
opposed to the proposal if it were possible to ensure band width would not 
be reduced.  However, all agreed that it is impossible to be sure that 
would not happen.

2.  CW is the universal language of hams all over the world. There are no 
foreign accents in a CW signal.

73,

Jay, K4OGG


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