On 9/4/05, alan alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The UK amateurs voted by a reasonable but no a large majority to drop > the code post WRC03. > > The issue for the administration (then the Radiocommunications Agency > - RA) was a defensible licensing need. Historically CW was the only
I believe the secondary reason is that the RA, and Industry Canada (in Canada), want to simplify administration of amateur radio licensing. Both government agencies appear to be streamlining the processes thus requiring fewer government resources to handling amateur licensing. I believe in Canada it may be not much more than a single person spending 1-2 days a month on amateur radio licensing (issuing new licenses updating the government database that RAC makes available, <http://www.rac.ca/callbook/>, and in recent history, no enforcement resources. Eliminating Morse testing is consistent with this simplification of amateur licensing, which I believe the FCC is interested in as well. -ve3tix _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
