Buddy, this is just the beginning.  The way that CW will make its exodus is 
by whittling away at the subbands until there is nothing left.  Just watch 
and see.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 11:36 PM 12/16/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Hang on Lou,
>
>You said the FCC has deleted cw from ham radio. Let's be careful; the
>FCC has only deleted the testing requirement. Remember that cw is
>legal on ***any*** Amateur allocation with the exception of the
>60-meter channels.
>
>While I agree with you in principle on the deletion of the
>requirement, I'm not convinced that it will of necessity lead to the
>mode being used less as a matter of course, Sure, learning the code
>isn't always easy, especially in the beginning, but there will always
>be those who are happy to learn a skill for its own sake, whether it
>was hard or not, and will value the skill just as much whether tested
>on it or not. These are probably mostly the same people who would use
>it anyway...how many have I seen that say they want the requirement to
>stay, yet don't use code themsleves and only learned it because they
>had to and couldn't copy any of it now?
>
>Anyway, there's a school of thought that suggests that code activity
>will in fact increase, and I've heard anecdotally that in at least
>some countries where the code requirement was eliminated, morse
>activity is actually increasing, contrary to the common school of
>thought.
>
>Again, I say that we will either make or break ourselves. Not the FCC,
>not the testing requirements. Us. It's a hobby. People who get
>involved will do so for their own reasons, but at least some of those
>reasons have to do with a pursuit of knowledge. Throw the baby out
>with the bathwater? I really don't know.

Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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