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From: labelle@hplabsc.UUCP (WB6YZZ La Belle)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Morse code stinks
Message-ID: <2005@hplabsc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 16:25:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 10 16:25:59 1984
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             How about 5 wpm to obtain any class license, with the

  higher classes being obtained through tougher technical and maybe

  operational examination? That would fulfill the emergency-jury rigged

  cw station requirement while making it much easier for the technically

  qualified (badly needed in our hobby) to get into amateur radio.

             I would have had a ham license 5 yrs before I finally

  obtained one if not for cw. I used to have an exclusively homebrew

  station!                     GEORGE