From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Title: Re: CODE FREE
Article-I.D.: alice.1255
Posted: Sun Dec  5 10:44:04 1982
Received: Mon Dec  6 03:43:11 1982
References: teklabs.1583

There is an article on page 55 of the December, 1982, QST
written by Vic Clark, W4KFC, President of the ARRL, on the
subject of code free licenses.  I probably don't have to
tell you it's anti-code-free.  I will not summarize the
article, but he makes a few major points:

[The following, labeled with *'s, are taken directly from
the article --Adam]

* An orderly growth of the US Amateur Radio Service -- perhaps
  at a rate of 7 to 8 per cent per year -- is desirable

* New ways need to be found to attract intelligent youngsters to
  this rewarding and educational avocation.

* The Amateur Radio Service, which has long enjoyed a reputation
  as orderly and efficient in its use of the radio spectrum, must
  continue to deserve that distinction.

Among his arguments again the code-free license, he says:

* It is a unique, intimate, concise and effective communications
  skill employed throughout the world.

* It is the most efficient mode in terms of power required for
  long distance communication, least susceptible to interference,
  and conserving of the radio frequency spectrum.

* It involves no accent or pronunciation problems, providing a
  widely understood international language.

* It employs simpler, more reliable and easily maintained equipment
  than any other communications mode.

* It is an equalizer, negating age, speech impediments and dialectical
  differences; it provides for ready acceptance of youngsters in an
  adult environment.

* It is the ONLY radio communications mode that is understood readily
  by both man and machine.