Len Over 21 wrote:
In article , (N2EY)
writes:
To US who were in the big-time radio communications on HF of a half
century ago, that did not involve morse code. There were and still are
a lot of "US" involved in that.
For some of US who've had more recent experience than yours, morse was
involved. For many of us who are actually radio amateurs and who are
participants in big-time radio HF communications today, morse code is
still involved. What are you doing in big-time HF these days?
I was IN worldwide communications on HF over a half century ago.
At the time I liked it fine...even felt honored to be able to serve my
country doing just that.
None of that involved morse code.
....and because you didn't use morse, no one used it at the time or
since.
A number of us have used morse professionally and as radio amateurs in
the decades after you had your "big-time".
Tens of thousands of skilled radio operators worldwide have used
worldwide communications effectively for decades without ever
once having to use or know morse code. They have done so for
over a half century.
Tens of thousands of skilled radio ops worldwide *have* used morse
effectively for worldwide communications after your day in the sun.
Tens of thousands still do so.
The U.S. military did not require any morsemanship to use the very
first handheld transceivers (on HF) for communications in 1940. That's
64 years ago. Neither did they require any morsemanship to use the
first backpack radio (on VHF) in 1943. That's 61 years ago.
Yet the military continued to use morse. What's your point?
The hundreds of thousands of PLMRS transceivers are not "operated"
every day in the apparent amateur sense. The essence of such
radios is to communicate and get information, not to "work other
stations" to get QSL cards or to engage in "radiosport."
The hundreds of thousands of amateur radio ops work DX, engage in
radiosport, check into nets or engage in public service communications
without touching a PLMRS transceiver.
"Broadband" is a generic term for any data, video, or other
communications that requires a broad bandwidth in its
propagation path. That applies to both wired, fibered, or
radioed communications paths and the "broadness" depends
on the rate of communications.
I see. "Broadband" means "broad bandwidth". You could have knocked me
over with a feather when I read your words. So to your way of thinking
on "broadness", a morse communication at 5 wpm on 10 KHz could be
considered "broadband"?
Dave K8MN