Carl R. Stevenson wrote:


I never said I was "the original expert" ... but I have logged many hundreds
of
hours of emergency comms service in my over 25 years as a ham ... and never
had to use CW (not that anyone else in the ARES or RACES teams would have
suggested it either ...)

Since the beginning of the use of phone in ham radio, I would be
interested to know of any disaster where ham radio was used for
communications and CW was the only means of communications that
could get through. I don't mean CW was used just because someone
wanted to or because they only had CW capabilities, but because
it was the ONLY mode that could get through.