I don't think it REALLY will either. What I fear is the "SSB/digital" bunch will demand use of the whole band! It's a bitch to work QRP thru the Spanish SSB on 40, so I can imagine what will happen when a jillion screaming USA SSB'ers take over the whole band! The other shoe hasn't dropped yet! (Expanding the 'phone bands). I hope the FCC hasn't an unpleasant surprise when it becomes a NPRM. 73, Sandy W5TVW ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Craig Rairdin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:20 AM Subject: RE: [Elecraft] RE: Sad day
| Thinking about it, | I don't think dropping the code will make one bit of difference to CW. I | agree with Craig in that the guys that just squeak by the CW test most | likely won't be found on the CW bands. The people who want to learn CW will. | 99% of my HF operating is in CW. I'm not on HF that often, but when I do | it's almost always CW. I imagine there will be (at least in the beginning) a | flood of HF phone activity and then it will taper off back to 'normal' or a | little higher than normal afterwards. | | James Kern | Network Administrator | Kurt S. Adler, Inc. | 1107 Broadway | New York, NY 10010 | 212-924-0900 x222 (work) | 212-807-0575 (fax) | 908-451-6801 (cell) | 800-209-7438 (pager) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Rairdin | Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:03 PM | To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net | Subject: RE: [Elecraft] RE: Sad day | | | I sympathize with you, and certainly welcome your contributions to the hobby | and to your local emergency services organizations (as if my "welcome" were | necessary or even important). | | On the other hand, there are concepts on the written test that seemed like | garbage to me no matter how much I studied. I have a computer science degree | with lots of advanced math and engineering but some of the formulae and | algorithms required for the Extra exam just leave me scratching my head. | | So my question is, should a bunch of us be able to get together and ask that | all the technical requirements for ham licenses be dropped just because it's | hard? That's what this "no code" thing sounds like to me. To me dropping the | code and only having a written test is philosophically no different than | dropping the written test and keeping the code. | | In the end, the hobby is changing. Other countries have dropped the code | requirement. We should follow suit. It sounds like the tests have been | steadily getting easier over the last 100 years. This is just the next step. | | As a CW-only, HF-only ham, I think this seems more ominous and wrong-headed | to me than it does to others. I don't think other points of view are | invalid, though. Just trying to make my opinions known. The guys who squeak | by on a CW test just for the test's sake are probably never going to show up | in the CW bands anyway so it may be a net zero loss for the practice of CW. | | I think I'll stop posting on this subject now. :-) | | Craig | | | ----Original Message---- | From: DAN ABBOTT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: 07/21/05 10:41 AM | To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net | Subject: [Elecraft] RE: Sad day -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I have been | reading the comments about the possibility of dropping the requirement for | CW in order to advance your license. I have great respect for those who have | passed the code test and one day I would like to be able to use CW, but it | will take a converter and keyboard to accomplish the task. Let me explain. I | built my K2/100 while trying to learn the code to achieve my General license | [ it's been three months now] with absolutely no success, my K2 is now only | a listening device. I have used Ham University and Your Introduction to | Morse Code from ARRL with no success. If your familiar with the courses, I | get to the letter L and when you add all the other letters to the sentence | it sounds like garbage to me. | I guess my question is, does it make you less of an operator not knowing CW? | I have an EE degree, so there is no problem with the concepts and I am the | Resources Coordinator for ARES/RACES for my county. When the FCC dropped the | requirement for CW, that opened the door for me to be come a HAM and be able | to do the Emergency work I do now. So why should it stop me from expanding | and being of even more use to the community? | | 73's | | Dan N7DWA K2/100 # 4775 | _______________________________________________ | Elecraft mailing list | Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net | You must be a subscriber to post to the list. | Subscriber Info (Addr. 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