"JJ" wrote in message
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Radio Amateur KC2HMZ wrote:


I was monitoring a MARS net a few years back, that was being conducted
in some rather lousy band conditions. One station tried to check into
this net using CW because the ops couldn't get through to the NCS
using SSB. The NCS told them that CW was not a valid operating mode
for checking into a MARS net. Draw your own conclusions.

I am curious as to why CW would not be a valid operating mode on a
MARS net.


Perhaps because the military doesn't train its radio ops in Morse any more?

(This is true ... my youngest son is a Radioman in Navy EOD ... never
learned
a single "dit" or "dah" ... the military only trains a very few "intercept
operators"
at a joint services school at Ft. Huachuca ... at least that's where it was
last I
knew ...)

Carl - wk3c