Hi Everyone;
In my humble opinion, I hope cw never goes away.
Their are people who are just sitting back waiting for a free ride to become
a general class operator.
5WPM is not that hard nor is it unreasonable to expect anyone to learn the
code and pass the test.
Code will punch through propagation more efficiently then any other mode.
And, if you remember the demonstration on THE TONIGHT SHOW, it is faster
than text messaging sent by a cell phone.
If you have no interest in learning the code, then get on the chicken band.
73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message -----
From: "hank smith" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] New Frequencies
> if they get rid of the code can those of us who want to take code can we
> do tso? and still get a license for cw?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:15 PM
> 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
>>
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