"Bob" wrote in message
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AJ Lake wrote:

Being a skilled radio operator in modern times does not require the
use of an ancient obsolete manual code.

Who decides what is "obsolete"?

Obsolete is a subjective term.

CW /certainly/ isn't obsolete! I can make QSOs with just a few Watts that
you could only /dream/ of achieving with /Kilowatts/ - and it can only be
done with CW!

Bob

I find it calming and even kind of cool that I can walk around the house and
follow a QSO in CW without having to carry a laptop and battery pack on my
back to translate. I can even copy it easier than some people's voices with
5 times the power. But I can see how some might want everyone to think it's
obsolete or even have us all executed for our insolence against the
revolution!

What you have to realize, is that there are those "out there" who would
consider HAM RADIO to be OBSOLETE because we don't pay for airtime.

The code test is no more! Viva La Revolucione! So now the war should be
over!

So now life should go on. People should be allowed to use voice, or learn
morse code, talk like computers, go have a sex change, jump off the Golden
Gate bridge, run for president, or whatever they feel like as long as the
taxpayer doesn't have to foot the bill.