Cecil Moore wrote:

How else one can know that the unit of resistance
is the "ohm", except by memorizing?

More importantly, that you can only transmit on 7.000 to 7.300 mHz, with
restrictions on mode and license class. Or that you call "MAYDAY" on voice
or SOS on CW for emergencies and never, never, never call "breaker, breaker".

Going back to the orginal point of memorizing or not, is knowing the
type of oscilators and drawing their schematics anything but memorizing?

Actually, the only MORSE code you need to get help is SOS (not even run
together as one letter). If you keep sending SOS, SOS, SOS, someone will
eventually hear you and track you down.

Note that the original intent of the morse code test was that amateur
radio was to provide a pool of ready trained radio operators in case of
war. I'm in a country in the middle of a war, and I can guarentee you that
NONE of the radio communications are morse code.

In fact, until we took out the cellular towers in Lebanon, almost all of
the Hizbolah's command and control traffic was via cellular phone.

Geoff.

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