Jerry wrote:

Contacts like that still help maintain receiving skill. That's important
if you ever have to use CW to save a life.
but it will never happen since there is no one to send the distress
call
SC
http://kb9rqz.blogspot.com/


Oh, really????
How about THIS one? (QRZ) and a newstory from England?

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Morse code used in rescue!

London, 20 October/GNN/ -- MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY News Release
(Press Notice: 368_06) issued by The Government News Network on 20 October
2006

Yesterday afternoon just after 5.30pm Hayling Island Coastguard team
member, Steve Mann, witnessed what he thought was a SOS message flashed by
torchlight towards the Control Tower at Hayling Island Sailing Club. Steve
responded to the SOS message by switching the lights on and off in the
Control Tower.

I would bet that the person flashing SOS knows little, or no morse code other
than SOS.

This, as an argument for hams using CW, is kind of like "mayday" being an
argument for hams being conversant in French.

-Chuck