On 3 Jul 2005 19:02:11 -0700, an_old_friend wrote:

Ha! You old fharts. I suppose the Op at KPH is going to send code so
poorly that a runny nosed Technician with a computer won't be able to
copy it. Sounds like W0EX.

With present licensing requirements I would say that is a 100 guaranteed.

Well if the present licensing guarantee that the morse is going to be
so badly sent that it can't be read by computer then Morse Code is dead
and lets finsih the burial

The ops at KPH/KSM are all either former station ops from there or
experienced shipboard radio operators, all holding Radiotelegraph
Operator Second or First Class Certificates. The "wheel" (VVV
tapes) will of course be used until traffic is to be passed.

If and when they switch to K6KPH on the ham bands (using drastically-
lowered transmitter power - 1.5 KW rather than the 15 KW that those
transmitters were built to deliver) the ops - same guys and ladies -
will be those who also hold FCC Radio Amateur licenses.

They will have no problem with sending clean Morse.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Fly-on-the-wall MRHS (KPH/KSM/K6KPH)