"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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I think most of you know that I've been operating aircraft ham radio
mobile
since the days of dynamotors and vacuum tubes (yes, I put a Heathkit
"Twoer"
in the Cessna 120 using a surplus wwii dynamotor back in 1968).

For those of you who have been sorta thinking that some day it would be
nice
to have a ham rig in the airplane, for emergency if nothing else, but that
the morse code requirement kept you away, the FCC just did away with the
morse code for all license classes. Read about it he

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/12/15/104/?nc=1


No more excuses for not having that ticket now, is there?

{;-)


Jim

(Of course, for those of us who thought that the code was long since
anachronistic, it is sort of like the FAA dropping the requirement to know
how to manipulate the manual spark advance on the magneto.)


Oh Drat! I was really depending on that excuse.

I tried to learn code a couple of times, and even made the mistake to trying
to listen to code tapes while falling asleep. It during a period that I had
suffered from some imsomnia and had difficulty dropping off to sleep--a
problem which was instantly cured!

Peter