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Europe Adopts 5 WPM as Morse Code Standard
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Europe Adopts 5 WPM as Morse Code Standard 
tratto da:
The ARRL Letter Vol. 20, No. 12 March 23, 2001
* Europe Adopts 5 WPM as Morse Code Standard:
The Conference of Postal and Telecommunications
Administrations--CEPT--has effectively lowered the 
Amateur Radio Morse code test speed to 5 WPM for all
European countries. The CEPT Radio Regulatory Working 
Group (WGRR), meeting last month in The Hague,
adopted a revision of Recommendation 61-02 to include 
the 5 WPM standard.
The European Radiocommunication Office published the 
revised version of T/R 61-02 this month. The revision,
which establishes requirements for the issuance of a 
Harmonised Amateur Radio Examination Certificate
(HAREC), reduces the Morse requirement from 12 WPM. "In 
revising what is known as the CEPT
Recommendation T/R 61-02, it has in effect recommended 
to 44 European countries to adopt the 5 WPM
standard," said Wireless Institute of Australia-Victoria 
President Jim Linton, VK3PC, who closely follows global
developments in Amateur Radio Morse code trends. 
Additional information is available on Linton's Morse 
code
watch site, 
http://www.wiavic.org.au/mcw
 .
More information on CEPT is on the ERO Web site, 
http://www.ero.dk
 .
Europe Adopts 5 WPM as Morse Code Standard 
NEWINGTON, CT, Mar 21, 2001--The Conference of Postal 
and Telecommunications
Administrations--CEPT--has effectively lowered the 
Amateur Radio Morse code test speed to 5 WPM for all
European countries. The CEPT Radio Regulatory Working 
Group (WGRR), meeting last month in The Hague,
adopted a revision of Recommendation 61-02 to include 
the 5 WPM standard. The European Radiocommunication
Office published the revised version of T/R 61-02 this 
month. 
The revision to T/R 61-02, which establishes 
requirements for the issuance of a Harmonised Amateur 
Radio
Examination Certificate (HAREC), reduces the Morse 
requirement from 12 WPM. The HAREC provides a
common licensing system for hams native to one 
participating country who become residents of another
participating country. The revision makes no change in 
T/R 61-01, which covers hams making short visits to 
other
CEPT and to participating non-CEPT countries. 
"In revising what is known as the CEPT Recommendation 
T/R 61-02, it has in effect recommended to 44
European countries to adopt the 5 WPM standard," said 
Wireless Institute of Australia-Victoria President Jim
Linton, VK3PC, who closely follows global developments 
in Amateur Radio Morse code trends. Linton said the
revision of the HAREC standards came in the wake of 
decisions by a number of European countries to adopt a 5
WPM examination requirement for operation on all bands 
and modes. Within CEPT, Belgium and Germany are
the latest countries to lower their Morse code 
requirement for full HF access to 5 WPM. 
According to minutes of the meeting held in The Hague, 
the decision was not unanimous. One administration felt
it would be premature to adopt a change in Morse code 
examination requirements prior to the World
Radiocommunication Conference in 2003, where a complete 
revision of the relevant provisions in the Radio
Regulations is on the agenda. Another administration 
said 5 WPM was too low and proposed reducing the speed
requirement to 8 WPM instead. 
Non-CEPT countries whose domestic licenses meet the 
HAREC standard include Australia, Canada, Israel,
Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Peru, Puerto Rico, 
South Africa and the US. Most of these non-CEPT
HAREC countries already have or are about to lower their 
amateur code requirement to 5 WPM. 
"In adopting the 5 WPM standard, most countries 
acknowledge that the mandatory Morse code amateur 
license
requirement is unlikely to remain when ITU Radio 
Regulations governing the Amateur Service are reviewed 
at
the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2003," Linton 
said. 
Linton has posted additional information on his Morse 
code watch site 
http://www.wiavic.org.au/mcw
 .
More information on CEPT, including the full texts of 
T/R 61-01 and T/R 61-02, are on the ERO Web site
http://www.ero.dk
 .
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