"Larry Roll K3LT" wrote in message
...
In article , "Bill Sohl"
writes:

[snippage]

So how come the other services abondoned morse as such a
valuable back-up?

Again, follow the money and you'll learn the truth. The cost of hiring,
training, and providing pay and benefits to CW-proficient radio operators
is the key factor in play here. But you already knew that. Moreover,
these "other services" you're talking about use high-powered satellite-
based technology which is designed for their specific purposes.

Satellites have NOT totally supplanted the use of HF by other services.
Morse has simply been replaced by things like SITOR and other data
services using ALE techniques for faster throughput and better reliability.

If HF had been abandoned, we would have gotten more than 5 discrete
channels at 5 MHz.

But
you already knew that, as well. When you make apples-to-oranges
comparisons between the all-volunteer Amateur Radio Service and
publicly- or commercially-funded communications services, your argument
falls flat on it's face. And if you didn't already know that, you're just
as
deluded as any other NCTA.

Larry, it's you that's deluded, with your quasi-religious-faith belief that
"Morse makes the ham."

Carl - wk3c