On July 5th 2003, Morse Code officially died as a international requirement to get a ham radio license to transmit on frequencies below 30 MHz.
Other countries are already moving to adopt the new international regulation. However in the USA the old men at ARRL are trying to drag out the demise of the 19th century requirement as they have for the last twenty years.
They have done this at their own risk, since none of the new ham radio operators will join a organiztion that has done everything they could to keep them out of ham radio.
To make a comparison between ham radio and computers it would be like all college computer training schools requiring all students to know how to operate and program a UNIVAC to get a degree.
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Other countries are already moving to adopt the new international regulation. However in the USA the old men at ARRL are trying to drag out the demise of the 19th century requirement as they have for the last twenty years.
They have done this at their own risk, since none of the new ham radio operators will join a organiztion that has done everything they could to keep them out of ham radio.
To make a comparison between ham radio and computers it would be like all college computer training schools requiring all students to know how to operate and program a UNIVAC to get a degree.
I'm sick of them knocking on my door or hitting me up a the airport.