On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:35:15 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:20:38 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Ya think? :)

Ham radio is now nothing more than glorified CB.

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Check your EMAIL. Good article in today's Wall Street Journal.

I did and thank you for that.

Great article. I was never in those guys league, but in my heyday, I
had solid copy on 60 WPM and believe it or not, I could copy 60 baud
RTTY. Learned that trick from my Dad.

It's sad to see a great communications mode just die off. What the
heck could be simpler than Morse code? A little time, a little
practice and your in the groove at 20 WPM.

I saw his comment about Morse and the League - I'm in total agreement
with him on that one. That was the reason why I cancelled my QST and
QEX subscriptions and left my position with the League totally
disillusioned. That was also during the Great W1AW "renovation"
cleverly disguised as a certain high ranking Corporate Officer's wet
dream operating station and his connection to Harris Corporation.

Now that all the old timers on the lower end of 80 are all dying off,
there's nobody left to play high speed yacking anymore. :)

Time marches on I guess. Oh well.

I will get the last laugh though. When all this digital crap lays
down and dies in a massive solar burst, those of us who still have
analog gear and a bug or key will be the ones who can communicate and
then WE WILL RULE THE WORLD!!

Er...ahem...

Sorry. :)

Thanks again - that was a great read.