Comment by tptacek
3 days ago
Making ham radio operators learn Morse Code was "requiring someone to be willing to learn a skill". Also pure gatekeeping.
3 days ago
Making ham radio operators learn Morse Code was "requiring someone to be willing to learn a skill". Also pure gatekeeping.
To be fair, and to offer context to non-hams: the morse requirement dated back to a time when morse code was _mostly_ the only way to communicate over radio. The problem is that it was held over as a requirement well after voice modes became commonplace on the air. Far longer than it probably should have.