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From: Lee Haefele (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 10 2005 - 05:43:23 EDT
This item is on the docket at the FCC, as it has support of US ham group
ARRL, it is expected to pass. It should be a matter of a few months. See
Below:
>
>The FCC is proposing to eliminate Morse code testing as a requirement for
>any class of US amateur license.
>
>In a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) adopted July 15 and issued
>today, the FCC said that comments already received indicated that the
>majority of amateurs support eliminating the code test for the General
>Class license and says that maintaining code exams for Extra Class "would
>not be in the public interest." The Commission declined to propose any
>additional changes suggested in any of the 18 petitions received after the
>International Telecommunications Union (ITU) dropped the international
>requirement for Morse code proficiency as a condition of issuing ham
>licenses with privileges below 30 MHz.
>
>The NPRM is WT Docket 05-235. Comments may be filed for 60 days after
>publication in the Federal Register (which hasn't happened yet), with an
>additional 15 days for reply comments. We urge anyone planning to comment
>to read the entire Notice before commenting.
>
>The complete 30-page document is available in Adobe Acrobat format at
><http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-143A1.pdf>. The
>NPRM may also be downloaded in Word and text formats by substituting .doc
>or .txt for .pdf in the above address.
Lee Haefele
>Subject: RE: lv-ab: News for Canadians
> Can the US and the FCC be far behind, taking into consideration the
> international treaties?
>
> Subject: lv-ab: News for Canadians
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Just thought some of you would like to know that effective in late July,
> Morse Code is no longer required to operate a ham radio in Canada.
>
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