Lets just say the microphone on your HF rig breaks during an emergency and
you don't have a spare. The ham that knows CW can keep communicating.
The ham that doesn't know CW is going to die.

SC

"Slow Code" wrote in message
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Lets just say the microphone on your HF rig breaks during an emergency and
you don't have a spare. The ham that knows CW can keep communicating.
The ham that doesn't know CW is going to die.

SC

No, a real ham would just fix it.

"Slow Code" wrote in message
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Lets just say the microphone on your HF rig breaks during an emergency and
you don't have a spare. The ham that knows CW can keep communicating.
The ham that doesn't know CW is going to die.

SC Did your mommy beat you too?

Slow Code wrote:
Lets just say the microphone on your HF rig breaks during an emergency and
you don't have a spare. The ham that knows CW can keep communicating.

Lets just say the telegraphy key on your HF rig breaks during an
emergency and you don't have a spare....

The ham that doesn't know CW is going to die.

SC

The ham that knows CW is going to die, right?

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Slow Code wrote:
Lets just say the microphone on your HF rig breaks during an emergency
and
you don't have a spare. The ham that knows CW can keep communicating.

Lets just say the telegraphy key on your HF rig breaks during an
emergency and you don't have a spare....

The ham that doesn't know CW is going to die.

SC

The ham that knows CW is going to die, right?



Correct, SC would die. He wouldn't have the sense to use the microphone.

U-Know-Who wrote:
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Slow Code wrote:
Lets just say the microphone on your HF rig breaks during an emergency
and
you don't have a spare. The ham that knows CW can keep communicating.

Lets just say the telegraphy key on your HF rig breaks during an
emergency and you don't have a spare....

The ham that doesn't know CW is going to die.

SC

The ham that knows CW is going to die, right?

Correct, SC would die. He wouldn't have the sense to use the microphone.

Natural selection at work.

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Slow Code wrote:
Lets just say the microphone on your HF rig breaks during an emergency
and you don't have a spare. The ham that knows CW can keep
communicating.

Lets just say the telegraphy key on your HF rig breaks during an
emergency and you don't have a spare....

The ham that doesn't know CW is going to die.

SC

The ham that knows CW is going to die, right?


No, he would live. He would remove the broken key, and send the message by
shorting the wires together. Code hams are always able get the message
out. That's why pro-coders are so important to ham radio.

SC