Knowledge of Morse code was an international requirement, but there was no speed requirement.
Anyone who remembers the "incentive licensing" debates of the mid-60s knows the Morse requirement in the U.S. was clearly intended to be restrictive by many hams if not most. Incentive licensing intentionally took away privileges with a code speed requirement that persisted until the fairly recent no-code licensing. I've always been a cw op. I lived in Japan when I was 12 and heard hams talking on my SW-54. I had no interest in that at all until I learned about hams using Morse code. I've been 90%+ CW since. Definitely not by choice, but I took General, Advanced and Extra before FCC examiners in Boston and Long Beach. Eric KE6US On 11/13/2017 10:04 AM, Edward R Cole wrote: > The purpose of requiring CW was perhaps not to be restrictive - but it > had exactly that effect. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
