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"hoggwild89" wrote in
: I learned morse code in the early 80's. (ex KA2RLB). I was an avid ham for years. I loved contesting, rtty, cw. I never really got much past 20wpm. But I loved ragchewing in the novice bands where I could pick and choose a comfortable speed. I was totaly inactive for about 10-12 years and recently was re-bitten by the "ham radio bug" and obtained a ts430s. Wow, how fast the cw came back to me! There have been a lot of changes in ham radio in the last 10 years, mostly due to computers. the one thing that has not really changed is morse readers. They still suck!! hihi. Then I find out the whole license structure and cw thing. Ok... It sort of saddend my heart a bit. Kind of like an end of an era. CW is an antiquated form of communication, no doubt, however I think there will be CW enthusiasts for many, many years. People that are steeped in tradidtion. To remember radios early days, etc.. Occasionaly I find myself talking to young kids and (If I can manipulate) the conversation turns to morse code (wink) I start rattleing thier name off in morse code (spoken) Dahdidah Didah Da Didididit Dahdidahda, etc etc. Most kids think its fun when you explain it like it learning a "secret language" that isnt really to hard to learn! So......where are all the CW'rs going to be???? I truley think, even if CW gets totaly abolished it will be around forever. Just my 2 cents N2EIK Dahdidah Personaly I just got my licence o 4-17-2004 and there was a fairly good debate going on about this exact subject. Heres what the end result was the 5 wpm code should open up CW ONLY freq. but not limit any other freq you should be allowed to go to extra with no code but not able to operate on the code freq. as far as the computer generated CW yes you could argue that but in the event of an emergancy can you build a telegraph key or a computer? personaly im a no code tech right now but i plan to take my general then study the code and take it mainly for tradition and en case there is no other way to communicate if i can get a message to someone in code even at 5wpm at least i got my message out. |
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