[TowerTalk] CW debate: Another time, Another place

[Jack Goforth]

Robert V. Donohue wrote:

>At least in Britain, they have some common sense, and want to lay to 
>rest a system originally used to send messages over telegraph lines in 
>1843-44.

Robert, This is not the reflector to discuss the CW debate. 

However, since you brought it up, for those wishing to be more 
informed and examine the "common sense" history of this subject, 
perhaps a review of the original international wireless treaty 
debates would be helpful. To review the purpose and requirements
of the original licensing of amateur radio by the US Government 
see:    <http://www.ipass.net/~whitetho/1914reg.htm> 
       
Another source providing insite into British "common sense" and 
thoughts on amateur radio is covered in detail in the book 
"200 Meters and Down" by Clinton DeSoto.

I suggest... Had the US Government in 1910-12 totally followed the 
positions of the British and other European powers such as Germany 
and France concerning wireless law, there would have been no "amateur" 
radio in this country and possibly the whole world. 

Fortunately individual freedom prevailed, and the US became the world 
leader in the development of the art and science of electronic 
communication because of it...

Jack Goforth  K4IBP  .-.-.


Stu Greene wrote:

> RSGB  wrote:
> >>This change of policy by the RSGB follows on only eighteen months after
> >>it announced (in December 1996) the results of a survey on "The Future
> >>of Amateur Radio", when thirty percent of members responded and two-
> >>thirds of these indicated their belief that Morse should remain as an
> >>international licensing requirement.
> >>The Council of the Society has apparently taken further wide input from
> members and non-members, sufficient to persuade itself that the results
> >>of the 1996 survey relative to the Morse test should not be taken into
> >>account in formulating policy.
> ------
> Somewhere I read that the United Kingdom was a constitutional  monarchy.  A
> democracy.  RSGB does the monarchial thing beautifully, but I'm not too
> sure about the constitutional or democratic parts of it.





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