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From: RAC Headquarters (rachq@rac.ca)
Date: February 11, 2000
Subject: RAC to ask Industry Canada to drop
12 wpm Morse requirement.
The Board of Directors of RAC has voted
unanimously in favour
of a motion to approach Industry Canada with a proposal
to
drop the requirement for a 12 words per minute Morse code
test in
Canada. Following the lead of the recent FCC decision
in the US, as well as in some European countries, RAC
proposes that Canadian amateurs who have
passed a 5 wpm Morse
code test, as well as the necessary written examination,
be
allowed full access to the HF bands. A formal proposal will
be submitted to Industry Canada in the near future.
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Guy Charron VA3FZA
Bulletin
Editor
Radio Amateurs of Canada
Email: va3fza@rac.ca
Packet: va3fza@ve2wxk
WWW:
www.rac.ca
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by VE3LHY on February 19, 2000
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I've been licensed since Aug. 1978, I like
and enjoy CW still at the present, cause my rig is capable of going in that mode,hi. I was a member of RAC for a year
and was never ask if I like the speed requirement to get to advanced license be
redused speed.
Well, my opinion is I'm also waiting for the Ministry of Transportation to drop the
posted speed limit on all roads and highways so that there will be less accidents,hi,hi,hi,hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by N3SAF on February 17, 2000
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I am a tech-plus in the usa and I am looking forward to getting a general lic...But I still cannot converse with my fellow telephone pioneers on ham radio...
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by VE3MAJ on February 15, 2000
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I'm in full aggreement with dropping the 12 wpm. Morse code has nothing to do with the good safe courtious, lawfull use of amateur radio, except historically. Requiring it for licencing is like a young person going in today for a driver's test but has to recite the starting proceedure for a Model A, just in case he ever needs one in an emergency.
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by VE3UZ on February 15, 2000
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My point is not to diminish the 5 wpm test. I have always thought it was a shame to restrict those hams to 160/80. They should have been given all band access with CW mode. But I also think there should be some incentive for Advanced theory and/or a higher code speed.
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by VE3VDK on February 15, 2000
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I am in full agreement in dropping the code requirements to 5 wpm and opening up all the bands to this achievement plus the advanced priviledge.
Are the senior operators affraid that they may have to share the frequencies?
They complain of the volgar language... yet Listening on 80 meters, Its the senior operators creating their demise.
Thanks for recivieng my thoughts.
Thank you for recieving my comments
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by VE3VDK on February 15, 2000
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I am in full agreement in dropping the code requirements to 5 wpm and opening up all the bands to this achievement plus the advanced priviledge.
Thank you for recieving my comments
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by VE3UUH on February 14, 2000
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Some more of the same stale rhetoric from the I did so should everyone else crowd.The same people who would like to take Amatuer Radio with them upon being a silent key.The sky is falling,it is going to turn into C.B., we have heard that lame argument so many times before.Please get over the end of the second world war,time marches on and things change.It is so easy to prejudge what might or might not happen.Contrary to popular belief there will not be a rush to amatuer radio so for God's sake relax,take a pill and enjoy life instead of crying and belly-aching.
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by VE3YAL on February 13, 2000
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Well for once CANADA.is going to keep up with the world this is long over dew . Keep up the good work.........
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by W4SD on February 13, 2000
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The plague is spreading. Too bad, I thought RAC had more sense. Guess not.
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by N7JI on July 9, 2003
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Actually, that's more like 10-band CB radio including the WARC bands and 60 meters...
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by N8CPA on August 4, 2003
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I wouldn't worry too much about 30M. All that we're allowed there is CW and other narrow band (ie Digital) modes. Should we start calling it the Extra Reservation? ;-D)
Steve
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by KC8UNF on September 8, 2003
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They should just dump the requirement all together.
It's time for the hobby to move forward !
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