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July 28th 03, 07:33 PM
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Floyd Davidson ) writes:
(Stu Parker) wrote: Don't believe that CW has had a long tradition of having favored status? Then reread the history of amateur radio. From being the mode favored by international treaty, to being the only mode that US hams were allowed to use on 40 meters until 1952, amateur radio history is full of examples of CW's most favored status. You are once again mixing the apples with the oranges. This reminds me of the time Marconi spanned the Atlantic. I remember he told his assistant "I'm not going to wait until voice modulation is invented, because I want to give morse code favored status". Then twenty years later, when hams spanned the Atlantic with shortwaves, they all said "let's not use that newfangled voice stuff, because we want to give morse code a favored status". Obviously, Howard Armstrong who we have to "blame" for all the receivers we use even today, must have been part of that conspiracy to keep AM in it's place, since he was part of one of the official transmitting sites for the attempt. Of course, there were all those hams in the early days who used only morse code because they wanted to give it favored status. It's a myth that they used it because a cw transmitter was simpler and less expensive. Let's not forgot OSCAR 1, launched in December of 1961. Those guys obviously had it send morse code because they wanted to give the mode favored status. Michael VE2BVW |
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July 29th 03, 01:18 AM
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