[TenTec] FCC says cw Dead?

[HUGHESRO]

I agree. I believe we have it now. Cw is not dead, just the testing. Now we can get back to avoiding winlink robots,jamming bpl and people who get upset if the words ten tec doesn't appear somewhere in every message. jeezzzz, people are touchy on friday.  73 roger
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Date:  Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:23:40 +0000

>Let's turn the burner down on this one:
>
>A.  This is a rule proposal, not a report and order (actual rule change 
>decision).
>B.  It was a response to a bunch of petitions to get rid of cw testing among 
>other things.  FCC had to respond in some way--this is a response that's 
>all.
>C.  It's a proposal to drop cw testing, not to ban cw.
>D.  There will be plenty of time to file comments electronically and then 
>time to file reply comments to the comments electronically.  FCC will 
>probably be flooded with con-statements and drop the whole thing.
>E.  Even if they don't, all cw activity will continue; you can op cw 'till 
>the cows come home if you want; this won't change that.  This just proposes 
>dropping testing for competency in a mode; as I told a friend, there's no 
>test to see if you can point an antenna at the moon, but you can still 
>operate EME if you want to, and EME is alive and well as far as I know.
>
>Before you start thinking the complete end of ham radio is near, get away 
>from the rig for a week and take a breather.
>
>The sad thing about the proposal however, is the rejection of ARRL's request 
>to restablish an entry class license with HF like the novice used to be.
>
>rob/k5uj
>
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