RadioBanter - View Single Post - It was a mistake for the ITU to eliminate the CW requirement.

[email protected] · October 21st 06, 05:19 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

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On 20 Oct 2006 19:51:24 -0700, wrote:

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On 20 Oct 2006 19:40:43 -0700, wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:

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What can be passed by CW that cannot be passed by voice???

A Morse Code exam.

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Dave K8MN

Sorry Dave, but you're wrong. The Morse Exam uses audio, not actual
on-the-air transmissions. I guess you're just not VE material.

indeed if the test were based on air use it might even be possible to
ctruct a rational for keeping the test although it would be rough to
justify why it is was the only mode so tested but one might make a
stab at it

If you have to "send by hand and receive by ear" over the air without
the license you're testing for, you'd be llike W3RV bypassing all the
testing and regulatory material and just getting on the air without a
license. And we wouldn't want that, would we?

You are right that doesn't work but it is closer to a valid arguement
for code testing than anything proposed by the ProCoder in my memerory.

Slow Code doesn't know code.

Although one could do the practice and exam on vhf but then they
would still have to deal with the codeless techs in their specrum

It would just be too awful for them to share spectrum with the unwashed
and the unworthy.