Whoah, build in GPS capability. Smart choice to remove the lower band FM mode as usually people dont use them.

since aprs is like the current in thing which is more common ah i think tatz y, but hmm i'd like to know hw much would it be in myr!

Is MCMC abolishing the CW requirement?? Better not..

Why not? I would be happy since I am tone deaf

Haha.. me too!!

lol mixed responses,better not abolish wan la i feel my 2cents

Sadly (happy for others), why abolish?? So sad..... thats like lowering the standard further..

There are pros and cons .. but in Malaysia, the only thing that separate the A & B classes is CW .. not so for the rest of the world .. where those with higher licenses need to sit for more technical exams ..

Errr the standard for B license have already been lowered badly by "pre amateur radio clubs" hehehe

Try listening to HF amateur radio operator world wide and compare to our local operator you would probably know the answer.

So my personal contention would be to open up the license and when operators goes international, they will bring the standard back to local VHF?

Understanding CW would be an advantage but I would say not compulsory. Most that passed the CW exam would totally forget how to listen and key CW right after. Its just to pass the exam.

Malaysian old hams are objecting to removal of CW cos its an exclusive club and pride of ownership where else rest of the world have already lifted this for all hams to communicate thru voice. MCMC did proposed to lift the CW test and it was approved then the intervention by a group of old ham got it stuck. http://www.uniarm.org/uniarmcms/index.php/mcmc-guidelines

Although its good to understand CW unfortunately for me, as I say I am tone deaf. I cant differentiate dit from dah even at 10wpm hehehe. For now I just can listen to HF and hope one day it will be opened up or I be silent key which ever comes first.

Yup .. couldn't agree more on the above .. "exclusive club" .. and this old who thought that they know everything and the younger ones need to learn from them, not from the "pre-amateur" club .. hehe..

This post has been edited by wiraone: May 4 2010, 01:17 PM

instead of arguing whether more pros or cons, why dun try removing it thn see wat happens? stupid idea but hmm maybe can?

Hahaha.. I'm not with MCMC .. so, couldn't do much .. btw, not that many are really interested on going below 2m.. the few 9Ms that I've met said that they're getting the 9M because of the sake of having a 9M callsign ..

One thing .. abolishing CW doesn't mean the 9W can go up to 9M automatically .. they still need to sit for a technical exam .. just like what they've done in other countries..

I am all for Technical exam. Just leave me out of beep beep exam heehehehe

Wiraone dude, any plans to go 6 or 10m this weekend?

Sorry, weekend full with other activities outside my shack la Bro .. btw, 10m is currently busy with stations coming from Japan .. they're on holiday today ..

hmm in that case, if it's a technical question, no doubt it'd be even harder like wat d for me, rae was already WOW d so i suppose if u go for such 9M wans itz bound to be harder i saw the US version b4 really errrrrrrrr
so for me, dah dit dah dit is better

Then we're really getting 9Ms who are technically competence .. not the one who could do CW but hardly know how to operate even a 2m HT

wasap ! wasap !

wiraone: hmm true true but sppose, there are always 2 sides to a story lor, i'd like to hear frm our other hams on wat they think

kingz: hiiiii

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hi hi..not sleeping yet ah?..what are u doing?..eh bout MCMC abolishing the CW test izzit true?

nope, well there were talks lor like itz quite a talk wan for a while d but postpone of the effect for quite some time d lor