Good for you Pat, K9JAU!

Besides this below, what would happen if someone needed to send a distress
signal on his or her HT, and she or he was being robbed or mugged or
something like that, and the only way one could do this was by using one's
DTMF touch-tone pad to send out a distress signal which people could follow
with direction-finding equipment?

33, 73, 88 where appropriate,
Reeva Parry,
AMATEUR RADIO CALL SIGN:  K8DMU!


At 03:07 PM 7/24/05 -0500, Pat Byrne, K9JAU, wrote:

>As one of the old goats on the list and in the hobbby, I had to take
>my thirteen WPM test at the F C C Field Office in Chicago.  All of
>the examiners at that time, late fifties, seemed like grumpy, sacry
>old guys who enjoyed it when you failed, but I fooled him and managed
>to pass both the code and the multiple choice written General
>exam.  I did well enough that we didn't have to work through the
>xchematic which counted for part of the grade.
>I decided that I would never want to use C W since it had been so
>hard to get up to the thirteen words - but somewhere along the line I
>tried it and learned to like it.  Early eighties; calendar, not my
>age!! and I got my Extra.  V E examiners gave me that test and the
>code was the easy part!!
>I am sad to see Morse code dropped as an element for ham
>licensing.  Many newcomers won't learn to hate and then enjoy it as a
>mode of communications, and sometimes, it does get through when other
>modes won't do the job.
>So, if you know the code, use it and gain some proficiency - you
>might learn to enjoy it.  And even if you don't, enjoy the hobby.  It
>is a great place to spend time.
>Pat, K9JAU


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