Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly, "Brian Kelly"
wrote in part:

Yeah, we heard all the same nonsense 11-12 years ago when the nocode
ticket became available. Can you cite a single example of a nocode who
"pushed the hobby/service forward" since then?

No. I can cite that the most noteworthy advances in amateur HF
operations in the past 11-12 years have had little or nothing to do with
the ability to send and receive Morse Code. There's no reason to believe
that Morse Code will become more relevant in the future.

But if you wanna play dirty, I can also cite the wonderful operations
conducted by the code-fortified geniuses on 14.313 and several other HF
frequencies. And the cavalcade of Extra Class code-fetishists sanctioned
by the FCC for one violation or the other.

Would the author of the "Red Panties Song" have been able to compose and
sing that ditty on HF amateur frequencies without the exquisite sense of
rhythm only a thorough grounding in Morse Code can provide?

Where's the BEEF?!

Don't quit your day job.

And
while you're at it perhaps you can explain what would change in this
respect by handing nocodes access to the HF bands too?

Of course not. But I bet you can. I'm sure it has something to do with
liberals, people wanting "something for nothing" all the time, declining
standards, Clinton, atonal music, Human Sacrifice, Dogs and Cats
Sleeping Together, MASS HYSTERIA! ($1)

Real Wrath of God stuff.

Corry

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