[cfgeeks] FCC eliminates morse code requirements

[Albert Pratts]

Amen!

Steve Litt wrote:
> Yes.
>
> First, the government has to be involved, or the spectrum would be of no use 
> to anyone. The government can, and indeed up until now *has* said for the 
> privilige of using certain frequencies in certain ways, one must know Morse 
> code. With the privilige comes responsibility.
>
> I'm aware the preceding is a slippery slope. Should we then say that in order 
> to own a gun, one must take law enforcement classes so that, with EMP or 500% 
> deflation, one can immediately function as a sheriff's deputy? Obviously not.
>
> But there's one difference. In the case of radio amateurs, the rule was 
> already in place, and all they had to do to keep it implemented was to do 
> nothing. In the case of guns, it requires a massive and intrusive change.
>
> So yes, in my opinion we should have mandated it, or more accurately, 
> continued to mandate it.
>
> Another email discussed code as a way of keeping riffraff out. That's not my 
> position. If it *were* used to keep rifraff out, it would be better used on 
> mailing lists :-)
>
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