In article , Robert Casey
writes:


Morsemanship uber alles in the year 2003!

There are NO "novice class" amateur radio licenses issued in
USA amateur radio. Are you going to keep space on a
"reservation" for all those missing indians or what?

What about all of us "extra-lite" licensees?

I've looked high and low on the FCC website and can't find any
amateur radio "extra-lite" license class.


We only need 5wpm nowadays, and if
I want to QSO Larry, I would want to have some skill.

Not an answer.

First of all, you've not established any NEED for a morsemanship test
for the US amateur radio license having below-30-MHz privileges.

I don't know which "Larry" you are talking about, but there's never been
any NEED for "QSO-ing any 'Larry'" in the US amateur radio regulations.



How about we keep all those Morsemen Chiefs on their elite little
EM spectrum reservations, maybe have dude ranches where
youngsters can all attend to learn the Old Ways of Morse?

As morse only requires a small bandwidth, those "reservations" wouldn't
be much of a burden.....

True enough. :-)

Let them get burned up and send smoke signals. Electronics runs on
smoke; if the smoke leaks out it won't work. :-)


LHA