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Give up CB for ham?
clfe wrote:
Many of you may have heard of the Quecreek Mine incident in PA some time ago. A pipe was drilled down into the shaft. Those at the surface heard 9 taps on it, signifying there were 9 miners there. NOW - if any of those miners KNEW code, they could have gotten a message to the surface as to what conditions were exactly, the extent of injuries as best they could, etc. Not by tapping. International Morse requires dashes as well as taps (dots). There is a tap code used in prisons that will accomplish communications under those circumstances. And since more people have been in prison than hold an amateur radio license, seems that it would make more sense to require knowing the tap code than to require knowing International Morse code. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |