good riddance.

Clint
KB5ZHT

In article , Alun Palmer
writes:


EI is the 7th country to abolish code testing by my reckoning

Ireland: Beautiful country, lovely people, but the same dumbed-down
hams! Not to worry, I'm sure us Yanks won't be far behind!

73 de Larry, K3LT

"Larry Roll K3LT" wrote in message
...
In article , Alun Palmer
writes:

EI is the 7th country to abolish code testing by my reckoning

Ireland: Beautiful country, lovely people, but the same dumbed-down
hams! Not to worry, I'm sure us Yanks won't be far behind!
73 de Larry, K3LT

Classic Larry comment :-) :-)

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK

Newsflash! - Singapore has abolished the code test. Now there are eight.

73 de Alun, N3KI

Great, not much longer and Ham Radio will be CBHAM RADIO world wide

"WA8ULX" wrote in message
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Newsflash! - Singapore has abolished the code test. Now there are eight.

73 de Alun, N3KI

Great, not much longer and Ham Radio will be CBHAM RADIO world wide

Look at it this way Bruce. It will rid the CW segements of useless trash.
They will all be on SSB. Digital will also be safe because that requires
some intelligence to set up and operate a program. Thus elliminating most
to all of the dumbed down hamsters.

Of course it will be a proccess of attrition in the CW field. Eventually
there will be no one left.

I worry about that as much as I care about 'global warming'. I won't be
here that long.

Oh BTW with the bands so sorry (SFI 97) I notice there is basically NILL
action on SSB. But I hear lots of CW stuff....wonder why that is?

Dan/W4NTI

"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in
hlink.net:


"WA8ULX" wrote in message
...
Newsflash! - Singapore has abolished the code test. Now there are
eight.

73 de Alun, N3KI

Great, not much longer and Ham Radio will be CBHAM RADIO world wide

Look at it this way Bruce. It will rid the CW segements of useless
trash. They will all be on SSB. Digital will also be safe because that
requires some intelligence to set up and operate a program. Thus
elliminating most to all of the dumbed down hamsters.

Of course it will be a proccess of attrition in the CW field.
Eventually there will be no one left.

I worry about that as much as I care about 'global warming'. I won't
be here that long.

Oh BTW with the bands so sorry (SFI 97) I notice there is basically
NILL action on SSB. But I hear lots of CW stuff....wonder why that is?

Dan/W4NTI




It's because people convince themselves the bands are dead and don't
transmit. If nobody transmits, then there's no-one to work. Granted the
bands are poor, but the WAE contest, for example, showed it up as a self-
fulfilling prophecy.

Dave Heil wrote:
Alun Palmer wrote:

"Bill Sohl" wrote in
rthlink.net:


"Larry Roll K3LT" wrote in message
...

In article , Alun Palmer
writes:


EI is the 7th country to abolish code testing by my reckoning

Ireland: Beautiful country, lovely people, but the same dumbed-down
hams! Not to worry, I'm sure us Yanks won't be far behind!
73 de Larry, K3LT



Newsflash! - Singapore has abolished the code test. Now there are eight.


Wow! That's quite a policy statement from a country with a little more
than 120 radio amateurs and it comes hot on the heels of the big move by
Ireland with its slightly more than 1,500 hams.

Singapore probably canes you for rules infracttion. Or using bad grammer
oon the air.

- Mike KB3EIA -

Alun Palmer wrote:
"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in

Oh BTW with the bands so sorry (SFI 97) I notice there is basically
NILL action on SSB. But I hear lots of CW stuff....wonder why that is?

Dan/W4NTI





It's because people convince themselves the bands are dead and don't
transmit. If nobody transmits, then there's no-one to work.

So only the CW people know this Alun?

- Mike KB3EIA -

Dave Heil wrote in
:

Alun Palmer wrote:

"Bill Sohl" wrote in
hlink.net:


"Larry Roll K3LT" wrote in message
...
In article , Alun Palmer
writes:

EI is the 7th country to abolish code testing by my reckoning

Ireland: Beautiful country, lovely people, but the same dumbed-down
hams! Not to worry, I'm sure us Yanks won't be far behind!
73 de Larry, K3LT

Newsflash! - Singapore has abolished the code test. Now there are
eight.

Wow! That's quite a policy statement from a country with a little more
than 120 radio amateurs and it comes hot on the heels of the big move by
Ireland with its slightly more than 1,500 hams.

Dave K8MN


I just did a quick recount, and 9V is the 9th country, not the 8th. They
are Switzerland, the UK, Belgium, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands,
Norway, Ireland and Singapore.

The funny thing is the only no-coder I have yet heard on HF was PE1RMZ. I
know that this is a Dutch no-code call from the time I worked PE1DUP
through a UK repeater. It takes time to get on HF I suppose. I was
surprised that no-one appeared to have been ready in advance.

You can try to pretend that 9V and EI don't matter, but look at the bigger
picture. You know where this will all end, and a d*mn good thing it is
too. If it wasn't for the bl**dy code test I would have been licenced and
on HF at 14.

Mike Coslo wrote in
:

Alun Palmer wrote:
"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in

Oh BTW with the bands so sorry (SFI 97) I notice there is basically
NILL action on SSB. But I hear lots of CW stuff....wonder why that is?

Dan/W4NTI





It's because people convince themselves the bands are dead and don't
transmit. If nobody transmits, then there's no-one to work.

So only the CW people know this Alun?

- Mike KB3EIA -



If enough people say that conditions are too poor for SSB some people will
be daft enough to beleive it.