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"N2EY" wrote in message ... In article , "Phil Kane" writes: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 12:14:44 -0500, Dan/W4NTI wrote: No Phil its not meaningless. The next 'attack' by the 'cw deprived' will be to abolish CW on the air. Watch and see. If Morse wasn't prohibited in the maritime community after all the ocean-going large ships stopped carrying Morse-qualified radio officers and both the USCG and the public coast stations stopped offering Morse service, what makes you think that it would be abolished for the ham community when the requirement for Morse testing is deleted? Several things: 1) The number of ships is far less than the number of hams, and they're much more spread out. 2) For the most part, the systems that replaced Morse in the maritime services don't use the same frequencies as Morse did. 3) The driving force behind the maritime service changes is/was saving $$. Ham radio is different. 4) Some of us don't quickly forget statements like: "no setasides for legacy modes!" and "those in the minority should learn to take 'no' for an answer and get on with life" (those are just a small sample) The "CWDC" (CW Deprived Conspiracy) can try hard - it won't do any good. Rather than an outright ban, we may see a form of "crowding out". There will be pressure to widen the 'phone/image bands still more. If proponents of CW make full usage of the bands, then there won't be a valid argument to widen phone segments. Remember too that the non-phone segments also support data. It is interesting to note how many folks really think that the non-phone/image parts of the HF bands are "CW-only" and are completely ignorant of the fact that data modes are authorized on all of them. Exactly why I wrote the comment above. There are only two CW only segments and all hams have access to them now... they are 50.0-50.1 and 144.0 to 144.1. Cheers, Bill K2UNK |
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