What's wrong with you guys??? Hams!

The FCC dropped the code because of the ITU. The ITU dropped the code requirement worldwide.

 

CORRECT it was not a FCC mandate

 

While the ITU did indeed drop the code requirement not all countries dropped the code. Some removed only the requirement for freqs above 30 mhz.

If I remember correctly Canada still requires code for those freqs below 30 mhz and high power operation. I also think New Zealand still has a code requirement.

It is just like power requirements. Some limit power to no more than 300 watts while others allow 2000 watts.

I've seem good operators and I've poor operators but as I said I believe there has been a drop in the quality of hams over the years.

Leon
(kc0iv)

 

I could not find a requirement for code ....

For many years, demonstrating a proficiency in Morse code was a requirement to obtain amateur licenses for the high frequency bands (frequencies below 30 MHz), but following changes in international regulations in 2003, countries are no longer required to demand proficiency.[10] As an example, the United States Federal Communications Commission phased out this requirement for all license classes on February 23, 2007.[11][12]


Any VE or VA hams out there .... how about a ZL ?????

 

My last ranger .....

Too bad ranger never made the 20-10 radio they talked about ....

 

Do you have to have a HAM to Listen in to the bands?

 

no, and you don't need one to buy ham equiptment either you just can't transmit legally....

Before I got my ticket I used to buy from Ham Radio Outlet (HRO) one of my purchases was a Ameritron amp the salesman on the phone asked me for my call sign (again, which I didn't have) I spelled out C A S H he got a laugh out of that even though I paid with a debit card..

 

EXCEPT for some c-phone or scrambled signals the airwaves are open to be lissened to.... HAM and CB are open .....

 

What do rules & regulations in other Nations have to do with the US and the FCC? How does them still having code, or their power limits have anything to do with Amateur radio in America? Code doesn't make anyone act better over the airwaves. So I don't care if you use, or don't use code that is your choice. And as long as some Hams think that they are better then others. Because they have code and the others don't. They are just as bad or worse than the other Hams that they talk about. They're driving the new Hams away. I'm a VE and I try to increase the number of Amateur operators. If we don't the hobby will die. And as for drivers who run their 10 meter radios. Who cares as long as they stay below 28.000 Mhz. Our Amateur License is not a License to Police the 11 meter CB bands. Or what equipment one runs in his or her truck. Some of us really need to think before we act.

 

So just as a recap, I can LISTEN but I just can't talk back?

Cool =)