Nate Bargmann ) writes:
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:13:51 -1000, Joseph Fenn wrote:


I suggest you go back and fully read the actual announcement where you will
find that a "prohibition" against Morse Code is a myth.


I am just relaying what came off the BBC and circulated world wide.
so dont blame me on their mistake if it truly is a mistake.
I hear more revisions from FCC are due out in Feb oo MARCH so maybe
it will rear its ugly head again.

What revisions? There is nothing pending on the table right now as the
latest Report and Order will be the last one we see for some time.
Nothing is going to be revised. Did you bother to read the links that were
posted to the FCC's own web site, their own documents? Since when is the
BBC's word gospel and more importantly, why do you trust their "reporting"
more than the documents on your own regulatory agency's site?

I got curious about this "BBC story", and did some searches last night.
Didn't find an article that came from the BBC, but there was a story from
some US newspaper (I didn't not the URL or which one) that had similar
wording. SOmething like "for people used to talking in dots and dashes..."
It was simply badly worded, but it had the tone that CW was now dead.

So I can imagine the BBC having some badly worded piece that said
that CW was gone.

Of course, there are two other possibilities. Someone is spoofing
the BBC, and figures if they credit such a well-known institution
people will believe that CW is now killed off.

The other possibility is that somehow the BBC talked to someone
who wanted to make some statement, or even honestly believed
that CW is gone, and the BBC took that statement on faith.

Michael VE2BVW