Politics - free

[Patrick Walters]

I'm stoked they finally decided to drop the morse code requirement, it
will hopefully give some new life to a fading hobby and form of
communication. (I'm a Tech No-Code).

They did take public comments, and I think it took so long just because
it's the FCC and they a long time to do anything. ;-)

-p


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net
[mailto:talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:50
To: SeattleWireless Talk List
Subject: RE: Politics - free

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Bill wrote:

> Hopefully this new year I (we?) will have more resources to put into a
> alternate (Amateur/Part15) network.   Never enough time...

Speaking of which, how do you feel about the dropping of Morse code 
proficiency from the amateur radio license testing? It was dropped 
internationally in 2003 but the FCC only announced it on the 15th of
this 
month. I know it's been a divisive subject for the past couple of years 
but I didn't know if the FCC was actually taking comments from the
public 
or had other reasons for waiting this long to decide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/business/27morse.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&e
n=19d9459b705ce909&ex=1167368400&pagewanted=print

-Gary
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