From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!davy
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Title: Re: No code license - (nf)
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.668
Posted: Sun Nov 21 18:27:43 1982
Received: Mon Nov 22 02:20:55 1982

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pur-ee!davy    Nov 20 16:27:00 1982



        I also agree with the  article(s)  in  favor  of  the  no-code
        license. I am not a ham, but am interested in becoming one. In
        fact, I'd probably be one now, if it  weren't  for  that  code
        requirement.  I  simply  don't have the time right now (I am a
        full time student, plus I work ~20 hours a week) to  sit  down
        and learn it. 

        If and when I do get my license, I don't plan on using  CW  at
        all.   Not  because  I  think  it's  necessarily  outdated  or
        primitive, just because that  end  of  things  doesn't  really
        interest me. Instead of requiring the code to get a license, I
        think perhaps they (the FCC) should simply  make  the  written
        test  more  difficult. I looked at a "sample" novice test, and
        answered about 75% of the  questions  correctly  without  even
        knowing the answers, I just used common sense. 

        Perhaps the test to get a code-free  license  should  be  more
        along  the level of a general-class test (I've never seen one,
        I'm just making an example), but the license should only grant
        the permissions given to technician-class folks. Then, I guess
        if they really wanted to, the FCC could require that code-free
        license  holders take a code test if they wish to upgrade to a
        higher-level license. 

        Oh well, enough rambling. Mail any comments, flames,  etc.  to
        me, not to the net. 

--Dave Curry 
pur-ee!davy