FCC eliminates Morse Code requirement for amateur radio licenses!

[thewayne]

Six years ago they reduced the code requirement to 5 words per minute and streamlined the number of license classes down to three. On Friday, they eliminated the code requirement entirely. The cool thing about this is it automatically grants me high-frequency privileges to do voice on world bands.


http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269012A1.pdf

Comments

Awww!

[ateji.livejournal.com]

Well, there goes my reason to learn Morse... :P

Re: Awww!

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Ah, but if you learn Morse, you would have a secret way of communicating with other equally-minded geeks...

Re: Awww!

[ateji.livejournal.com]

I know but... *agonizes* I think I'm going to have to go with Latin and Old English for now. That actually lets me talk to people whose geeky vibes I'm more in tune with. (Ow, bad sentence construction.)

I did consider getting a license for that kind of thing in high school when my dad and I were soldering together funky little Radio Shack kits.