Chuck Harris wrote in
:

Jerry wrote:

Contacts like that still help maintain receiving skill. That's
important if you ever have to use CW to save a life.
but it will never happen since there is no one to send the distress
call
SC
http://kb9rqz.blogspot.com/


Oh, really????
How about THIS one? (QRZ) and a newstory from England?

Quote
Morse code used in rescue!

London, 20 October/GNN/ -- MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY News
Release
(Press Notice: 368_06) issued by The Government News Network on 20
October 2006

Yesterday afternoon just after 5.30pm Hayling Island Coastguard
team
member, Steve Mann, witnessed what he thought was a SOS message flashed
by torchlight towards the Control Tower at Hayling Island Sailing Club.
Steve responded to the SOS message by switching the lights on and off
in the Control Tower.

I would bet that the person flashing SOS knows little, or no morse code
other than SOS.

This, as an argument for hams using CW, is kind of like "mayday" being
an argument for hams being conversant in French.

-Chuck


Spoken like a true "I-Hate-CW" Whiner. Why you even worried about it
anyway, you don't even have a welfare license.

SC