Richard Harrison wrote:
: N2EY wrote:
: "Why not?"
: Morse code is electric smoke signals. Completely obsolete. The Amateur
: Radio Service is about wireless communications, not codes and cyphers.
: Telephone displaced telegraph on the wires. Radiotelephone replaced
: radio telegraph on the air, once modulation was developed. Telegraph is
: gone except for a few diehards. Good ridance!
: Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI, BSEE
You've never tried to *reliably* work Aurora on two metres or higher,
have you?
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73 Chris Cox N0UK, G4JEC, ex-AB0CN, ex-G8PTC RNARS #1157 EN34jv33
Don't Believe Everything You Think
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Cultural observation:
Europeans think 100 miles is a long way;
Americans think 100 years is a long time!