Jibbs wrote:

In addition, Switzerland, Belgium, the UK, Germany, Norway, the
Netherlands, Austria, New Zealand and Australia have moved to drop their
Morse requirements.


So what? If all these countires jumped off bridges would that mean we
would be nuts for not jump too? What these counties do are their own
business and who wants to be put in the same class as Germany anyway!


Yet the USA will surely be the last to join the rest of the world in doing what
is obvious to everyone else.


Oh I hope not, I hope the USA never joins the rest of the world. We
don't need a 80, 40, 20, and 15 meter CB bands. God forbid that we have
something happen here far worse than 9/11 which renders Voice
communications useless and we need to go back to basices. After all its
a lot easier to build a CW rig than a voice rig in the event of a
national emergency. Once you stop teaching/learning the basics then
you'll gradully become a less educated national. Just look at workers
in McDonalds, when the computer quits working they can't make sales.....

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com