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July 12th 03, 05:09 PM
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"Kim W5TIT" wrote in
: "Dick Carroll" wrote in message ... Dwight Stewart wrote: "Mike Coslo" wrote: Dwight Stewart wrote: Isn't Code more of a skill than a knowledge? Any person can look at a piece of paper with a code chart on it and translate code, but that doesn't mean they have the skill to send or receive code over a radio. Wasn't the latter the ultimate purpose of the code test? One must know the Morse code to send and recieve it. You're right. Perhaps memorizing the individual sequence of sounds associated with a letter of the alphabet is knowledge on some very basic level, similar to a young child memorizing the sounds associated with the letters of the alphabet. Amazing that this would become a key focus of testing in ham radio for so many years. \ Mygawd, Dwight, are you really licensed as a ham? And *that's* all you know of radiotelegraphy? You been hiding out in the wilderness somewhere, in a cave? What do you think it was that started radio in the first place, semaphores? No doubt what started ham radio was an experiment using the best of what was around then. Perhaps you'd like to move into the most recent century, Dick. If ham radio were "invented" today, it would never even get near CW. Kim W5TIT --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net Complaints to Do you know why, though Kim. Morse intended his system to be 100% automated. Sending by hand and receiving by ear only came about because the electro-mechanical systems of the day were unreliable. This happened even before radio was invented. So you're right, now we use computers for data modes a chain of events like that would be impossible. |
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