*** Off-line *** Dave, Thanks for your answer. My personal opinion is that the FCC is going to do away with the code regardless of what we (ARRL) request. The tiger is staring us right in the face. See you in a couple weeks! - Bill N3LLR AR>Bill, that is difficult to gauge. One possibility is that, having waited this long to put out the Omnibus NPRM, they may just tack this onto it. It would be relatively easy to delete the references to Element 1 from 97.501-97.509. Or, they might do a special "Article 25 revision" NPRM to take on board all of the changes to Article 25. Morse aside, we should go through Part 97 to identify those things that should be changed to bring it into line with the new Article 25. As two simple examples, 97.115(a)(2) and 97.117 concerning international communications ought to be amended. If they do the latter, given the intertia that would have to be overcome it could take a couple of years. 73, Dave K1ZZ -----Original Message----- From: Edgar, William (SM, Western PA) Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 10:31 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:9017] Re: Morse Code Requirement Dave, Any idea when the FCC may drop the CW requirement? - Bill N3LLR AR>Thanks to the pace of FCC rulemaking,despite the fact that the international AR>regulations change tomorrow we still have time to make this part of our AR>strategic planning. AR>73, AR>Dave K1ZZ