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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Cecil Moore wrote:
How else one can know that the unit of resistance is the "ohm", except by memorizing? More importantly, that you can only transmit on 7.000 to 7.300 mHz, with restrictions on mode and license class. Or that you call "MAYDAY" on voice or SOS on CW for emergencies and never, never, never call "breaker, breaker". Going back to the orginal point of memorizing or not, is knowing the type of oscilators and drawing their schematics anything but memorizing? Actually, the only MORSE code you need to get help is SOS (not even run together as one letter). If you keep sending SOS, SOS, SOS, someone will eventually hear you and track you down. Note that the original intent of the morse code test was that amateur radio was to provide a pool of ready trained radio operators in case of war. I'm in a country in the middle of a war, and I can guarentee you that NONE of the radio communications are morse code. In fact, until we took out the cellular towers in Lebanon, almost all of the Hizbolah's command and control traffic was via cellular phone. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ |
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