Verry well said, Phil.  LONG LIVE CW!

Let's do all we can to keep it alive.

Here's to the code, from a fellow CW op.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 12:43 AM
Subject: CW Issue


> Years ago, when they started fiddling around with the code requirements, I
> knew they would eventually eliminate it all together.  Although I have
> literally gone for years without making a side band contact now, since CW
> has always been my favorite, I have never cared if they got rid of the
> testing for the code or not.  Only those wishing to learn and enjoy that
> mode of communications will be in the CW bands now and there will be, as
it
> has been going down the last 20 years, fewer and fewer CW operators.
> Eventually, when the last of us dies out, I guess everything will be phone
> and digital stuff.  I won't care then because I'll be gone anyhow.  Until
> then, just tune the bands during a CW contest and try and tell me CW is
> dead.  I frankly never thought I would see the day there was no CW test
and
> I pray I never see the day the code is band from the air but it wouldn't
> surprise me.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>