"Larry Roll K3LT" wrote:
Unfortunately, there is more evidence to support
my "feeling" than there is to support yours. With
the exception of hams who were trained in Morse
code by the military or maritime/commercial radio
services, I have yet to meet an avid and active
CW user who got that way except through the
code testing requirement. (snip)
Of course, that's mainly because the code testing requirement has been
there longer than most of us have been alive. With that in mind, obviously
most today would be CW users as a the result of code testing.
Dwight Stewart (W5NET)
http://www.qsl.net/w5net/