"Alun" wrote in message
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in
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And yet you say code is "necessary"? As an unqualified blanket
statement that is laughable.

Nope it is not laughable. There are many necessary things in life that
people do not do. They choose for reasons of their own to omit them.
Annual physicals are a "necessary" item for people of middle age and
older but I know quite a few people who do not get them. Keeping one's
weight under control is "necessary" but there's a lot of us carrying
more weight than we should.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE



So, let me get this straight, you are saying it's necessary for me to use
CW, and comparing not doing it with failing to get a physical. I don't
think that argument will hold water. The consequences of not using CW are
what, exactly?

No I did not say it is necessary for you to use code only necessary for
people to learn it before deciding its usefulness for them. If one doesn't
know it, one can't make an enlightened decision. Thus it is a necessary
part of amateur radio whether or not it is used by any particular
individual.

The consequences of not using code are simple and that is having to cease HF
communications earlier than those who do use code when propagation falls
off. Regardless of the relative magnitude of this consequence it is
nevertheless a consequence.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE