On Sep 6, 9:03*pm, wrote:
They didn't do away with Morse Code. They did away with the test
for
it. It was done a little at a time over the past 30 years.
hey jim:
Sorry I wasn't talking Morse code, .
Real Morse code nobody knows. That is lost already gone kaput history.
Vail invented the code you so aptly call Morse, So it's not real Morse
code
it's Vail code. What is really lost: everybody still calls it Morse
code.

I think I could make some money fire up the ole solar powered kiln and
start growing quartz.
I break out that old ARRL handbook that tells you exactly how to cut
the crystals
for the desired frequencies and sell them for 50 cent apiece.
I'd make so much money in volume sales.

73 OM
n8zu