In article .net, "Dan/W4NTI"
w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com writes:

Spark was banned.

Were you very sad when that happened, Dan?

Gosh, on-off keying morse was the ONLY way that sparkies could
communicate anything back in the "good old days."

Wide band FM was banned from HF. For decades all we
could do was talk and do CW. It was years fighting to get SSTV allowed.
Then digital, other than RTTY was another long road.

Tell us all about "losing all those ham bands" after WARC-79... :-)

Most of the time the FCC simply didn't bother to authorize a new mode.

Nah...everything is beeping and voice yakking just on HF, right?

No problem, you probably think "spread spectrum" is an obscene
phrase. :-)

Thats how it works Hug and Chalk.

"Hugging and a Chalking" was a little ditty composed by a black
radio pianist on a Chicago radio station about 1950, had his own
quarter hour program. It was briefly popular in the midwest. You
were listening to Chicago radio stations back then, senior? :-)

LHA