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Subj: IARU R 3 - "No more morse testing"
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Hello there,
Here's some important news from the IARU Region 3 conference in Darwin.
I wonder if the results of the voting there will be treated in the same
manner as the results of the Region I Lillehammer conference last
September? Remember that? 26 delegates voted to remove the morse
requirement, 7 voted to retain it, and 7 abstained: but the IARU EC decided
that this vote was counter to a vote held in 1996 (!!) in Tel Aviv, and
had to be ignored, 'cos it was "confusing". I wonder how they will
interpret this?
73, Pete PE1MHO - G7ECN
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IARU RIII - Morse code vote
The IARU RIII Conference has resolved to support lowering the amateur
licence Morse code test speed as a temporary measure, and the ultimate
removal of Morse being an ITU licence requirement.
The conference being held in Darwin, Australia, has 17 member societies
participating, and discussed the issue during its working group phase,
and put the matter to the vote on Friday during at its plenary session.
The motion, proposed WIA, seconded SARTS, read:
IARU Region 3 strongly supports Morse code as an effective and efficient
mode of communication. However, it believes that the position of Morse
as a qualifying criterion for an HF amateur licence is not relevant to
the healthy future of amateur radio. Therefore:
1. That IARU Region 3 urges member societies to seek, as an
interim measure, the reduction of all Morse code testing speeds
to five words per minute.
2. a) That setting aside any previous relevant decisions of earlier
Conferences, a policy of the removal of Morse code testing as an
ITU requirement for an amateur licence to operate on frequencies
below 30 MHz be adopted by IARU Region 3
b) Further, we recommend that the Administrative Council adopt the
above position as IARU policy.
The motion was passed, with ARRL voting against and HART recording an
abstention.
In another motion, the IARU RIII Conference addressed concern about the
preliminary draft new recommendation M-AOQ, ITU-R Document 8A/TEMP/91-E,
which includes reference to Radio Telegraphy under a list of Operating
Skills for the amateur licence.
The M-AOQ is the working text to substitute those now in the ITU RR s25,
at the WRC-03.
The concern expressed by delegates was that "Operating Skills" could be
misunderstood, and in fact it had been wrongly seen by some in the amateur
radio fraternity as indicating the retention of Morse code testing.
In a motion proposed RSGB, seconded ARRL, the conference resolved to
instruct the IARU RIII representatives on the IARU Administrative Council
to replace "operating skills" with the words "methods of communications".
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Source: Jim Linton, VK3PC, IARU Region 3 conference Media Officer.
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