Just a cop-out. I suspect that folks learn alot more useless
(and incorrect) things in school than having to learn the code.
The requirement is there, deal with it! Whining isn't going
to make the requirement go away nor will it get a license.

Doug, k3qt
s/v Callista

"Vito" wrote in message
...
I beg to disagree. Every complaint I have heard focuses on the fact that
Morse Code is so obsolete that it has no practical value, not on its
difficulty per se. People who have spent 12 years attending high school
then
four and more in college learning useful things are reluctant to spend
even
a dozen hours learning something ase useless (to them) as Morse Code.


"Doug Dotson" wrote
..... My experience has been that most that cry foul about learnig code
do
so because
they failed to learn it after two or three evenings of trying. It takes
work, some more than others.