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June 28th 05, 04:05 AM

wrote:

... the cw part

Is an amateur test. And is a trivial problem to people with
real educations..

Sorry you are plain wrong in many cases

makes as much sense as learning to play a "jew's
harp"--a lot of sense if you wish to, none if you don't...

Then why require someone with no interest in VHF-UHF to learn
those techniques in order to operate on HF? Why require
knowedge of FSK, PSK and other data modes to operate voice?
Why require knowledge of transistors and ICs to operate
vacuum-tube equipment?

We don't require knowledge of given mode meraly a scatering of them.
you could choose to know nothing about psk and get your license. but
not Morse encoded CW

IOW, why require anyone to learn anything about a subject they
are not interested in, just to get a license to do the things
they *are* interested in?

we don't a plain falsehood

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Perhaps what bothers some people the most about the code test
is that it isn't something most people already know. And it
isn't something that can be learned by reading a book, watching
a video, etc. It's a skill, not "book learning".

In learning the code, a Ph.D in EE has to start at the same place
as a grade-schooler. And the grade schooler may learn faster and
do better! Perhaps it is this characteristic of the test - its
ability to act as a Great Equalizer - that causes some to resent
it so much.

It isn't an equalizer it is a discriminating factor based on the abilty
of the brain to process certain data types

Few people start at the same place, the feild is simply not level,
level playing field is what the US is about, can't always manage it but
in theory we try

People can and do skip over a question here and threre Indeed when I
took my tests for tech I skiped over learning the band edges of the
novice bands I took a guess when the time came