Jim:

You should fully investigate "text-to-speech" and "speech-to-text"; typing
is indeed becoming as extinct as the dodo bird (and cw.)

Frankly, keyboards are probably only as prevalent as they are for much the
same reasons as cw--humans are creatures of habit, the newest generations
probably will kill the keyboard...

John

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:48:35 +0000, Jim Hampton wrote:


"W2DNE" wrote in message
...
....why do the US Army Field Manuals provide instructions for setting up
SINGCARS-V radios in CW mode?


https://atiam.train.army.mil/soldier...18/FM24-_9.htm



The reality is that the arguements will continue of code vs no code.

Few folks understand that a fair number of hams can send and receive Morse
faster than these folks can type. A surprising number of people cannot type
more than 30 or 40 words per minute; their skill is that they can point and
click with a mouse

Likewise, a number of folks think that typing is outdated. It is, so long
as you only wish to copy and paste other's work and pass it off as your own.
Somehow, if one wishes to actually create an article, it is useful to be
able to type.


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA