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From: brian@casemo.UUCP (Brian Cuthie )
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio.packet,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Gilmore responds...
Message-ID: <224@casemo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 10:04:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: casemo.224
Posted: Tue Sep  1 10:04:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 04:50:15 EDT
References: <115@splut.UUCP> <598@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: CASE Communications, Columbia, MD
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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.

While I am certainly one of the people who learned the morse and forgot it, I
am happy that the requirement is there.  It is probably the one thing that keeps
HAM radio from becoming like CB.  To make the written test too difficult would 
only prove to make HAM radio an elitest hobby; only within reach of the 
technically endowed.

KEEP HAM RADIO FROM BECOMING LIKE CB  --  KEEP MORSE!

It's just not that tough to learn 5 words per minute.  If you really want a HAM
liscense then take the 1/2 hour a noght for two weeks and learn it !

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Brian Cuthie (KA3BRZ)
CASE Communications
Columbia, Md 21046
(301) 290 - 7443