From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!rjf Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Title: Re: No-code license Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1159 Posted: Thu Mar 10 12:10:23 1983 Received: Fri Mar 11 08:00:43 1983 Well, the battle lines have been drawn! Code or NO-code? My feelins on the matter are simple. I believe that there should indeed be a license class that has a theory requirement but no code test. HOWEVER, this (Experimenter) Class license should be restricted to the UHF frequencies, NOT VHF! In other words, they should only be allowed on above 220 MHz. Certainly, they shouldn't be allowed on 2 meters. Two meters is crowded enough with people that HAVE gone through the trouble of learning Morse Code (at least 5 words per minute anyway). Even 220 is getting a little full in some areas. While I understand the new radio computer people wanting to get on the air with their stuff without learning something they will NEVER use, let them have frequencies that other hams don't normally use and where they will have to really work at getting on the air. Hams have always helped push ahead the state of the art. If these experimenters really want to get on the lower frequencies then they should take the time to learn what everyone else does. I refuse to accept the idea that it is impossible for someone to learn the theory AND Morse code at 5 wpm. My wife has NO backround in radio, and she did it. C'mon people, you want to be a ham, do it, its not hard. You don't want to, fine, but don't expect the privledges that go with being one. Bob Fabrizio, WA3SBT (...!{seismo,mcnc,we13}!rlgvax!rjf)