Len:

I was just here "Twiddling With Amateur Things" and attempting to come up
with an acronym for what I was doing, when I seen your post, pleasant
diversion--your post...

.... well, back to figuring out the acronym--you have any ideas? grin

John

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:17:37 -0700, an_old_friend wrote:


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From: on Fri 19 Aug 2005 12:58

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AT THE TIME (1998-1999), it was IMPOSSIBLE to eliminate
the morse code test for ANY U.S. amateur radio license
having privileges of operating below 30 MHz. The barrier
was S25.5 of the ITU-R...colloquially known (or mis-known)
as "the treaty." [there is NO specific treaty on morse
code, only the honor system whereby all administrations are
supposed to adhere to ITU decisions on standards and
allocations]

Nebbermind that the US of A has broken lots of treaties that Jimmy
No-Serve has never protested.

and not to mention that the Treaty never said what a code test was, by
plain reading one could argue that sending a did and requiring the
teste to Id it it as E would be a test

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