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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Slow Code wrote: "an old friend" wrote in ups.com: wrote: Many ham are American Red Cross first aid and adult CPR instructors. That trumps CW at any speed. lol thank you for that Sorry Mark, the pumping and blowing you know isn't called CPR. i am skilled at CPR amoug other thing you uon the other have given us no reason to say your skilled at anything SC |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
"clfe" wrote in
: "Alun L. Palmer" wrote in message . .. wrote in s.com: If you asked the same question to someone who had only passed 5 wpm and then, like me, never used it, then I suspect the victim wouldn't make it. But then in most countries there is NO morse code testing any more, so there are plenty of hams now who've never learnt atall. For decades there have been no code VHF hams in most countries anyway. To "some" extent, I "may" have to disagree. I held a class once for "No Code Tech" and one of the guys - a man in his 70s asked if he could go for the code test even though I wasn't teaching code. He said he had learned it years ago in the service - but may be rusty. Let me tell you - when he was done testing, he had PERFECT copy. Was he practicing all along? We'll never know - nor did I ask. He has since passed on. Some people DO have a good memory and retain quite well. Others - lose things almost immediately if not used. Some of us, it takes a while to lose it and we usually do. Lou It is possible that someone could learn at 5wpm, not use it for years, and still be able to use it, but I wouldn't want to bet my life on it. More to the point is I can't magine a scenario in which CW would be the only mode available, and that hams are about the only remaining users of CW. |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Alun L. Palmer wrote:
More to the point is I can't magine a scenario in which CW would be the only mode available, and that hams are about the only remaining users of CW. How about a portable QRPer, camping out of range of a cellphone tower, who falls and can't reach his beer? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Alun L. Palmer wrote: "clfe" wrote in : "Alun L. Palmer" wrote in message . .. wrote in s.com: If you asked the same question to someone who had only passed 5 wpm Lou It is possible that someone could learn at 5wpm, not use it for years, and still be able to use it, but I wouldn't want to bet my life on it. More to the point is I can't magine a scenario in which CW would be the only mode available, and that hams are about the only remaining users of CW. oh I can imgine that much bt then however I can't take the next and imagine that cw is all their is andthat the message is going to do anygood the only senario like that is independace day |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
In article , "Alun L.
Palmer" wrote: Assuming some weird contrived scenario where I had the equipment to send CW but not phone, it would depend what frequencies it worked on. I think this is the nature of the premise on which the original post was based. Compare it to a similar situation, where a film camera user is debating a digital camera user: "If you came upon a drowning man, and you had to choose whether to save him or photograph his demise, what kind of film would you use?" |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
On 16 Jul 2006 18:51:21 +0200, "Alun L. Palmer"
wrote: More to the point is I can't magine a scenario in which CW would be the only mode available A transmitter with no mic, no computer - just a transmit switch. Or not even a transmit switch, but you can get to one of the battery wires. Far fetched, but it could happen. and that hams are about the only remaining users of CW. Boy Scouts? The military no longer uses CW - what used to be passed by brass pounders is now passed digitally. Merchant Marine? Same thing. Aero commo? Same thing, except for voice. I doubt any group or service actually uses it these days. |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Slow Code wrote: (Fred McKenzie) wrote in : In article , "Alun L. Palmer" wrote: "If you came upon a drowning man, and you had to choose whether to save him or photograph his demise, what kind of film would you use?" Getting rid of CW is like choosing the kind of film. Ham radio is drowning and the anti-code hams want us to think tossing it bricks will make it float better. Dumbing things down is never an improvement. nobody is talking about dummbing anything down you are indeed you advocate dummbing down radio and giving hf only to the unintelgent SC |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
an old friend wrote:
Slow Code wrote: (Fred McKenzie) wrote in : In article , "Alun L. Palmer" wrote: "If you came upon a drowning man, and you had to choose whether to save him or photograph his demise, what kind of film would you use?" Getting rid of CW is like choosing the kind of film. Ham radio is drowning and the anti-code hams want us to think tossing it bricks will make it float better. Dumbing things down is never an improvement. nobody is talking about dummbing anything down you are indeed you advocate dummbing down radio and giving hf only to the unintelgent SC Knowing CW is NO indication of any level of intelligence, technical or otherwise! BTW film is seeing it's last days too. Ask Kodak! -- Brian Denley http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Brian Denley wrote:
Knowing CW is NO indication of any level of intelligence, technical or otherwise! BTW film is seeing it's last days too. Ask Kodak! "Seen" except for special needs. And those that do special needs will likely be making millions. There will be about 12 of them that make it, and thousands that don't, but wish they could. I know quite a few in the photo biz, and film is, to put it very bluntly, dead. tom K0TAR |
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