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December 18th 06, 04:15 PM
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No More Morse Code?
Tester wrote: On 18 Dec 2006 06:02:10 -0800, wrote: Von Fourche wrote: Uh, what happened boys? Not enough people wanting to join your little fraternity? Worried that with nobody joining you SHAMS the government may give the airwaves to their rightful owners - the American people? Worried that SHAM radio will become like CB radio? We know what happened. You arrogant engineers are getting fewer and fewer in number. Not enough new arrogant engineers to take your place. Can you find code these days outside the ham band? Does the U.S. Army Signal Corps have any use for code in 2006? Is there a wire telegraph system anywhere in the world which uses some version or other of Morse Code? Nope. The military abandoned it in the 1980's. Maritime services have dropped it and professional emergency responders all use something more up to date. Every technology has its day and is gone. No one in the first world makes wool like the Romans today (thank God - urine was an important part of the process) or wories about using precisely designed catapaults to knock down castle walls. (outside a special on PBS or the History Channel) Maybe there should be a bunch of technological options for a General ham license of which one should be Morse. It would serve as much purpose as testing a prospective ham for his proficiency in operating a spark-gap transmitter. Or to use an automotive analogy to require prospective drivers to be proficient with a horse and buggy. The ability to build a good transmitter should be another. The days of hams building a shack from scratch are long over. Requiring the construction of a transmitter would not provide any useful information about the suitability of that ham to operate on the ham bands. I think that requiring a ham to demonstrate both that he could assemble the components of a station in a safe manner and could operate using voice in a concise and courteous manner would provide the most useful information. Couple the operating competency test with a written one that tests for knowlege of radio theory and the result could be the first meaningful ham radio exam in over half a century. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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