In a message dated 9/11/2003 11:21:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dsumner@arrl.org writes:

further recognizing that the position of Morse as a qualifying criterion for an HF amateur license is no longer relevant to the healthy future of amateur radio,

Oh bull. CW is the second most used mode. Come on. I think this wording stinks and I'm disappointed you and Rod didn't do something about the wording short of standing on your head. Some other wording could have been used, or simply these words not said at all, and achieved the same result. Abstain votes makes it look like we side-stepped the issue. OK, we can say we didn't vote "for it" per se, but we sure can't say we voted against it, either, and for that reason it will look like we endorse the notion that CW "is no longer relevant to the healthy future of amateur radio." 73, K5UR