Gee Wayne....with your standard I reckon you need to dump that Lead Acid
Battery, it was designed way back in the 20th century. And that antiquated
Telephone got to go too. Heck, AM radio and FM radio needs to go too. And
Television with all that old Analog stuff....Hey how about that internal
combustion engine too?

Wayne baby....just because it is old, does not mean it is not useful.

Have a good day.

Dan/W4NTI

"Wayne P. Muckleroy" wrote in message
. ..
antiquated. It was developed during a time when it was considered a
miracle that we could string wire sets for thousands of miles and (slowly)
communicate with a series of "clicks." Then the miracle of spark
generators were invented and we were really advanced because we could lose
the wire sets and communicate across the big pond.

I tend to be practical when it comes to technology. I realize the
importance of amateur radio or else I would not be spending my time in
here. However, if I need to order a pizza on my way home from work, I
don't pull out my HT and patch into the local pizzeria. I use my cell
phone of course.

But, during a time of power failure or disastrous periods, obviously, the
cell will not function. So then, I would use a portable method of
communication. This does not mean I would automatically pull out my key
and start sending Morse. Most likely, I would attempt verbal contact via
an HF mode. If bandwidth is limited, I'm sure I could find other modes to
use that are almost as efficient as Morse. If all else fails, I could hook
up my lap-top, and let it do all the work--sending and receiving Morse. If
on the off chance my lap-top is dead, I could resort to manual Morse at 5
wpm. In which case, I still don't need the stupid Morse learning software
to get me to 20, 40, 60 wpm.

I have much more important things to do with my time than practice this
dead language.

Wayne-
(KC8UIO)

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"Has" wrote in message
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"Sigurd Stenersen" wrote in message
...
Wayne P. Muckleroy wrote:
"Sigurd Stenersen" wrote in message
I decided to make a contribution to the continued use of Morse code,
and have created a computer program that makes it easy to learn the
code. The program can be downloaded from
http://justlearnmorsecode.com If you like the program, please make the
URL known to the members of
your club and anybody else that might be interested.

Also, comments and suggestions are very welcome.

Morse is dead...hang it up!

I don't know your reasoning for making a statement like that, but no
matter what it is it applies to ham radio in general. What do you need
ham radio for in the first place ? A cell phone is all you need to talk
to anybody, anywhere, anytime.

So what are you doing here on the ham radio newsgroups in the first
place ?


Indeed.

-has