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Is the code requirement really keeping good people out of ham radio?
Cecil Moore wrote: wrote: What IS outmoded (technically) is sitting only on HF and "working" other stations with morse radiotelegraphy. Amateur radio is the ONLY radio service still using morse radiotelegraphy for communications purposes. Actually Len, almost all amateur radio operation has been outmoded by advancing technology which has made amateur radio first to be redundant and later to be obsolete. I'm still using the same modes for amateur radio that I used more than half a century ago. That is true in essence for all those who "work DX on HF with CW." :-) Some will point to modern techniques in radio (DDS, PLL frequency control, solid-state PAs that need no tuning controls, etc.) as being advancements. Trouble is, those advancements came from the designers-manufacturers, advancements to capture market share of ham consumer electronics. Using only on-off keying with a state-of-the- art transceiver seems a waste of available resources in that equipment. My daughter lives in New York state. 50 years ago, I would have tried to talk her into getting a ham license. Today, Sprint cellphones allow the two of us to communicate any time, day or night, for free. One in three Americans has a cell phone now according to the US Census Bureau. Each cell phone is basically a little two-way radio. No "CW" test is needed to use a cell phone. :-) I just completed an exchange of files (including hi- resolution photographs) this morning with another in Europe. Took only a few minutes. The Internet stretches over most of the globe, is unaffected by any ionospheric variation. Those files couldn't be exchanged via "CW" on HF. [maybe the "phase shift" impairs such information transfer...:-) ] No "CW" test is needed to use the Internet. :-) But, in 2006 the FCC regulations still require any radio amateur to test for "CW" in order to operate on bands below 30 MHz. None of the other radio services require that. shrug |
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