Subj : MORSE CODE
To   : Roy Witt
From : David Pratt
Date : Tue Sep 12 2000 04:50 pm

-=> Quoting Roy Witt to David Pratt <=-

DP> "2736   (2) Administrations shall take such measures as they judge
DP> necessary to verify the operation and technical qualifications of any
DP> person wishing to operate the apparatus of an amateur station."

RW> Notice it doesn't mention the use of or testing in morse code.  At one
RW> time, as recently as 1998, I believe it did.

Sorry, my mistake Roy, it does....

"2735 3.  (1)  Any person seeking a licence to operate the apparatus
of an amateur station shall prove that he is able to send correctly by
hand and to receive correctly by ear texts in Morse code signals. The
administrations concerned may, however, waive this requirement in the
case of stations making use exclusively of frequencies above 30 MHz."

I am not sure how the FCC got away without requiring a sending test as
part of Units 1A, 1B or 1C, but they have.  In the UK, we still have a
sending test in which the candidate is not allowed any uncorrected
errors.

73

David G4DMP
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