"hoggwild89" wrote in
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I learned morse code in the early 80's. (ex KA2RLB). I was an avid ham
for years. I loved contesting, rtty, cw. I never really got much past
20wpm. But I loved ragchewing in the novice bands where I could pick
and choose a comfortable speed. I was totaly inactive for about 10-12
years and recently was re-bitten by the "ham radio bug" and obtained a
ts430s. Wow, how fast the cw came back to me!
There have been a lot of changes in ham radio in the last 10 years,
mostly due to computers.
the one thing that has not really changed is morse readers. They still
suck!! hihi.
Then I find out the whole license structure and cw thing. Ok... It
sort of saddend my heart a bit.
Kind of like an end of an era. CW is an antiquated form of
communication, no doubt, however I think there will be CW enthusiasts
for many, many years. People that are steeped in tradidtion. To
remember radios early days, etc.. Occasionaly I find myself talking to
young kids and (If I can manipulate) the conversation turns to morse
code (wink) I start rattleing thier name off in morse code (spoken)
Dahdidah Didah Da Didididit Dahdidahda, etc etc. Most kids think its
fun when you explain it like it learning a "secret language" that isnt
really to hard to learn! So......where are all the CW'rs going to
be???? I truley think, even if CW gets totaly abolished it will be
around forever. Just my 2 cents

N2EIK

Dahdidah



Personaly I just got my licence o 4-17-2004 and there was a fairly good
debate going on about this exact subject.

Heres what the end result was the 5 wpm code should open up CW ONLY
freq. but not limit any other freq you should be allowed to go to extra
with no code but not able to operate on the code freq. as far as the
computer generated CW yes you could argue that but in the event of an
emergancy can you build a telegraph key or a computer? personaly im a no
code tech right now but i plan to take my general then study the code
and take it mainly for tradition and en case there is no other way to
communicate if i can get a message to someone in code even at 5wpm at
least i got my message out.