OMG:

I never thought about that, with the great influx of all these new
hams firing up their keys and going CW on us, phone might be in
danger!!! grin

John

"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
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"K4YZ" wrote in message
ups.com...


wrote:
wrote:

I agree with Dee, the only visible impact this
latest "restructing"
will be is another quickie bubble of upgrades and nothing more
then
back then the bands as usual.

Yup. Then the "barrier" folks will find another excuse.

Yep.

Just like with Novice Enhancement, the introduction of the NCT
and
Restructuring...

I find it laughable that the FCC would use the same worn out
and
obviously untrue language that "this" change will bring all those
technically-oriented people into the Amateur fold. They said the
exact
same thing with the last three aforementioned evolutions and it
wasn't
true then.

Indeed we dropped the Code Test in 91 for 97% of all Amateur
allocations, including the highly sought after VHF/UHF spectrum.
The
REAL argument has been over that last 3%, or the HF allocations.
So
where were all those engineering-types then?

People like "You-Know-Who" have been arguing that his ilk
don't
get licenses due to not being able to get on HF...Yet they ALSO
argue
that the license is most valuable for experimenting. Well...All of
the
REAL "experimenting" is going on ABOVE 30MHz, not below it, so the
argument is moot. They, like everyone else, want to get on HF and
"shoot skip", nothing more.

I'm betting that it remains CW for Extra, and no code for
Generals, unless the FCC want's to disband the phone-vs-narrow band
subdivisions. I think there will be sufficient argument to keep
that
much.

The next two arguments are going to be to squeeze all of the
non-voice modes into 50 or 75KHz of spectrum on each band since all
of
those new codeless Generals will want to spead out, and to have
only
one or two license classes.

When that is done we can remove all references to training and
technical/operational competency from the Basis and Purpose of Part
97.
Shortly thereafter we can move all of Part 97 to Part 95. Maybe
re-write both parts into one, new, Part 96?

Perhaps we can also add new bands at 061, 08, 04, 03 etc
Meters so
those claiming unfairness in testing criteria due to "dyslexia" can
operate legally...?!?!

73

Steve, K4YZ


Steve,

So far (cross fingers) cw is legal *anywhere* in the ham bands
(other than,
I believe, 60 meters) so long as one's license class permits
transmitting.

I have, in the past, found it an excellent way of confounding
someone who
jumps on me (of course, that was when all amateurs had some ability
on cw -
a minimum of 13 words per minute on hf in the voice bands). Funny
thing how
Mike, W2OY's killerwatt couldn't touch my 75 watts LOL. Even
funnier was
the way his blood pressure was going up whilst I continued a nice
contact
with Ohio despite his best efforts. Both the other guy and I could
handle
cw quite well. After a number of "qrq" sent back and fourth, we
were
humming along at a nice rate, neither pushing speed limits nor
plodding
along. It was somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 to 45 words per
minute
and we continued for a good half hour more. Every now and then, I'd
open
the rx bandwidth to hear Mike screaming "take those toys down into
the cw
band". Sure, Mike, just don't hold your breath. snort



73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA