From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!zps!digger Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Title: Re: No-code license Article-I.D.: zps.109 Posted: Mon Mar 14 22:45:13 1983 Received: Fri Mar 18 08:40:25 1983 References: rlgvax.1159 I will have to agree with Bob. It does not take so much to get a ham licence. If these people can learn a computer language then they shouldn't have any problem with morse code. An experimenters class license is good provided they are put in a band of their own. 220 Mhz is alive and active. 450 Mhz is also far from dead. If they are to create another class of license then they can surely find a portion of VHF or UHF that is not allocated to Amateur radio. After all they found some for the CB'ers didn't they.? I think that the fact that Amateur radio operators have the priviledge to build and maintain there own equipment (transmitters etc.) is being over looked. If a person can learn the theory at age 12 as I did then learning code shouldn't be too difficult, besides what ever happened to the chalenges in life. I have been a ham for 7 years now and hold the advanced class license. I learned the code and I can understand the call of most repeater cw identifiers. If no-code licensecees appear on VHF and UHF they will never understand the code. There is code on FM TOO. I think that the operator should be able to copy the call on my repeater. Not to mention the various other helpfull messages it produces in code. Enough is said I will listen again. Scott Miles WB6PQM Northern Amateur Relay Council 220 Mhz coordinator zps!zehntel!sytek opps... digger@zps any way you have my QTH 73's