"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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Dan/W4NTI wrote:
"an old friend" wrote in message
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Dan/W4NTI wrote:

Minor correction "John Smith". If the USA decided not to drop CW, it
would NOT be alone in world. Russia and her ex Soviet Block nations
have
all decided to keep CW.

and you WANT the US to keep such company


Absolutely I want us to keep such company.

Hows the old saying go? Keep your enemies close and your friends closer.

It the other way around, Dan: Keep your friends close, and your enemies
closer.

But otherwise you are spot-on.

Ideologies aside, there is one big difference between their country and
ours. During WWII, they were brought to the brink of existence, and
survival was not at all certain. That has perhaps changed their outlook on
communications in extremis.

Here, we "know" that in emergencies that we will use cell phones and the
Internet, and all will be well. For some reason or other, they think that
perhaps a time will come when technology can fail. Then whatchya got?

- Mike KB3EIA -

Naw, I like it my way...hi.

That is my point Mike. Just because it is old....does not make it useless.
I believe in the KISS method. And CW, in emergencies, is the easiest and
simplest thing to get running.

No modems, no regulated power supplies, no computers. Just the basic stuff.

I was asked once by my Battalion commander while in the field in Germany.
( I was talking to the Feldburg 2m ham repeater while standing on top of the
Command track). He asked how I could communicate with Frankfurt, and all of
his radios could not......I said...."Well Sir, it takes two things to
communicate.....an operator on both ends"

He ordered me to take my H/T every time we went to the field from then on.

Dan/W4NTI