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"Larry" wrote in message ... "jds" wrote in news:jiTJe.29418$HV1.22431@fed1read07: well, call me an old fart then. if someone is too damn lazy to learn code, let em be limited to a technician. i use cw 99% of the time. try talking to some guy in italy that doesnt speak english any better than i speak italian, add accent= wtf did he say??? an "a" is .- in any language. jeez , 5wpm is a real obsticle?? i could copy 10 before i even attempted my novice test. j.d. kc7mpd Many people still ride horses, too. But, alas, that is NOT a requirement before one drives a car. The analogy is the same. You do not have to know how to ride a horse before you are allowed to drive a car. You can be licensed to drive a ship, but are not required to row a boat. We're all glad you love CW. I'm hoping FCC comes to its senses and restricts CW to the CW part of the band. The only thing it is used for in other parts of the band is a jamming device. There is no reason for it to be used in any other part of the bands. -- Larry OK, I will put my oar in on this Larry. I have used cw for emergency communications traffic after we were hit by the tail end of a typhoon and all I could get going was a 5 watt CW rig running off a lantern battery. I passed the traffic on a phone net.on 75 meters. Remember what the FCC uses to justify ham licenses at all...the word emergency is there. CW should not be relegated out of the other mode frequencies because in an emergency it needs authority to be there. Common sense says operate normally in a CW portion only. I hate code myself, but got my Novice at age 12, Technician 6 months later and General and commercial Radiotelephone 2nd with Ship Radar at age 13, First Phone at age 17. I have 48 years as a ham and have to admit CW has very little justification, but since ham radio is a hobby, the hobbyist who wants to use should have a segment for CW only and a minimum testing requirement to use it there. 73 Doug K7ABX |
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