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