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From: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio.packet,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Gilmore responds...
Message-ID: <2855@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 10:25:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2855
Posted: Tue Sep  1 10:25:09 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Sep-87 00:45:05 EDT
References: <115@splut.UUCP> <598@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Syncstream/Widget Systems (San Francisco)
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Keywords: public access to ham spectrum
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In article <598@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I, too, don't see the point to the morse requirement. It's a game. Having to
>pass some sort of test is one thing, but having to learn a useless skill
>through boring rote repetition is another. Make the test as tough as you
>like... but test something useful.

   I wholeheartly agree with the bannig of the morse test, at
least for something lower like the "Tech" class.  Morse does
have it's place, but it is turning away many potential licencse
canidates.

-- 
        Tim Pozar
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