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Morse Code Requirement Officially Removed:
This is from the IARU web site, refer to www.iaru.org/rel030703att3.html to read the entire changes made thanks to WRC 2003.
"The old regulation that Morse was a requirement for the operators of amateur stations below 30 MHz was found in a provision that read as follows:
Any person seeking a licence to operate the apparatus of an amateur station shall prove that he is able to send correctly by hand and to receive correctly by ear texts in Morse code signals. The administrations concerned may, however, waive this requirement in the case of stations making use exclusively of frequencies above 30 MHz.
That was replaced with a provision giving each administration the right to decide whether or not Morse is a required qualification as follows:
25.5 Administrations shall determine whether or not a person seeking a licence to operate an amateur station shall demonstrate the ability to send and receive texts in Morse code signals.
The alternative of simply deleting the old provision was rejected because a number of administrations thought that the matter was so important that a positive decision not to require Morse as a qualification was appropriate. The effect is actually the same: Morse code is no longer an internationally required qualification for an amateur licence, though an administration may still require it. 25.6 Administrations shall verify the operational and technical qualifications of any person wishing to operate an amateur station. Guidance for standards of competence may be found in the most recent version of Recommendation ITU-R M.1544.
The reference to the Recommendation is a non-mandatory reference. That is, an administration is not bound to follow it, but it is expected that all administrations will take the Recommendation into account when setting the qualification for an amateur licensee.
The Recommendation is very general, for example providing that any person seeking a license to operate an amateur station should demonstrate a "theoretical knowledge of: Radio regulations, international, domestic", and under the heading "Radio system theory", "transmitters, receivers, antennas and propagation and measurements." Consistently with the decisions of the Conference, the Recommendation does not suggest any requirement for a Morse skill.
That accords with the IARU position that the Radio Regulations should give some guidance as to the qualification appropriate for an amateur licence, but should not attempt to set a syllabus, as the diversity of environments for which a standard must be set is very great.
The identification of a standard, the topics on which knowledge is required, reflects one of the essential elements of the amateur service, namely that an amateur is a person who has demonstrated an operational and technical qualification, distinguishing that amateur from many other users of the spectrum.
Conclusion
The Radio Regulations are the written result of the welding together of the different views of different people with different languages and from different cultures. It is no doubt easy to say that some of the provisions could be expressed more elegantly, and that some of the provisions are not necessary.
Of course, it is true that the narrower provisions of the old international regulations have not really inhibited the amateur service in many countries, with administrations preferring a liberal interpretation. But in the long run, the amateur service cannot afford to have countries ignore the international regulations. It is fundamental that the amateurs have appropriate "operational and technical qualifications." A speed limit that is unrealistic and not enforced is going to be ignored. What was appropriate in 1932 may not be appropriate in 2003."
I guess we will see what the FCC decides.<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT="
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Hot Rod Lincoln -Dancing around the World ! ...... CDX948 Central Texas, - Hook948@hotmail.com[img]http://deephousepage.com/smilies/AR15firing.gif[/img]</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub86.ezboard.com/bworldwidecbradioclub.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hook948@worldwidecbradioclub>Hook948</A> at: 7/4/03 9:34 am
This is from the IARU web site, refer to www.iaru.org/rel030703att3.html to read the entire changes made thanks to WRC 2003.
"The old regulation that Morse was a requirement for the operators of amateur stations below 30 MHz was found in a provision that read as follows:
Any person seeking a licence to operate the apparatus of an amateur station shall prove that he is able to send correctly by hand and to receive correctly by ear texts in Morse code signals. The administrations concerned may, however, waive this requirement in the case of stations making use exclusively of frequencies above 30 MHz.
That was replaced with a provision giving each administration the right to decide whether or not Morse is a required qualification as follows:
25.5 Administrations shall determine whether or not a person seeking a licence to operate an amateur station shall demonstrate the ability to send and receive texts in Morse code signals.
The alternative of simply deleting the old provision was rejected because a number of administrations thought that the matter was so important that a positive decision not to require Morse as a qualification was appropriate. The effect is actually the same: Morse code is no longer an internationally required qualification for an amateur licence, though an administration may still require it. 25.6 Administrations shall verify the operational and technical qualifications of any person wishing to operate an amateur station. Guidance for standards of competence may be found in the most recent version of Recommendation ITU-R M.1544.
The reference to the Recommendation is a non-mandatory reference. That is, an administration is not bound to follow it, but it is expected that all administrations will take the Recommendation into account when setting the qualification for an amateur licensee.
The Recommendation is very general, for example providing that any person seeking a license to operate an amateur station should demonstrate a "theoretical knowledge of: Radio regulations, international, domestic", and under the heading "Radio system theory", "transmitters, receivers, antennas and propagation and measurements." Consistently with the decisions of the Conference, the Recommendation does not suggest any requirement for a Morse skill.
That accords with the IARU position that the Radio Regulations should give some guidance as to the qualification appropriate for an amateur licence, but should not attempt to set a syllabus, as the diversity of environments for which a standard must be set is very great.
The identification of a standard, the topics on which knowledge is required, reflects one of the essential elements of the amateur service, namely that an amateur is a person who has demonstrated an operational and technical qualification, distinguishing that amateur from many other users of the spectrum.
Conclusion
The Radio Regulations are the written result of the welding together of the different views of different people with different languages and from different cultures. It is no doubt easy to say that some of the provisions could be expressed more elegantly, and that some of the provisions are not necessary.
Of course, it is true that the narrower provisions of the old international regulations have not really inhibited the amateur service in many countries, with administrations preferring a liberal interpretation. But in the long run, the amateur service cannot afford to have countries ignore the international regulations. It is fundamental that the amateurs have appropriate "operational and technical qualifications." A speed limit that is unrealistic and not enforced is going to be ignored. What was appropriate in 1932 may not be appropriate in 2003."
I guess we will see what the FCC decides.<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT="
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