is this where i say "me 3"?
I loooooove cw, or i did back when i was still at home and barely had my 
tech ticket, my brother didn't really care for it but heh, hand me a key 
and, it might take me a while but i could get the job done, even and this is 
the strange thing, i was carrying on a cw chat and my mom was talking to me 
at the same time, i don't know how i did it but i guess one ear for each 
task i guess hi hi.
anyway i hated the test part of the code, i remember going with my big 
brailler and punching out the letters as i heard them which both was a pain 
in the rear and anoying to others i'm sure, but when i was alone, i just 
copied in my head, found it easier, thats the only reason i would be ok with 
them doing away with a code part of the test but on the other hand, i had to 
do it, why shouldnt they all :p
anyway somehow i managed, just being away from it, i'd be a bit rusty 
probably
anyway thats my 0.1 cent
73s
matt
kb0cly

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: New Frequencies


> OH ya I agree, I hope cw never goes away on the air.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 00:16
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New Frequencies
>
> Ed,
>
> When I first passed my general, I was about 14 years young at the time.  I
> had a Viking Ranger one for a transmitter.  It ran A M of course but I had
> no microphone.  So that first morning after getting my ticket, I went up
> into the 75 meter phone band and on CW, called a guy running side band
> calling CQ and he answered me.  This was when most phone operators could
> still copy CW of course.  Anyhow, I about fell off my chair because he
> literally rag chewed with me for a long time and never once complains 
> about
> me being on CW.  In fact, now that I think of it, he never asked me why I
> didn't switch to phone.  Way cool.  Them were the days.  I hope, when they
> do away with CW testing all together, they at least keep one written
> question on the exam, and that is, Do you know what CW is?  The answer?  I
> call it, for my packet buddies, the ODM, or the Original Digital Mode. 
> No,
> I don't care if they do away with the code because only people who know 
> the
> code, and can copy it, work the CW bands.  Just leave us with at least 100
> KHz of band width, though, because them dad blame digital boys are now
> taking up half the CW bands so we need at least 50 KHz to call CQ in.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>