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The biggest disadvantage would be narrowing down the percentage of people
on the other end that would be able to decipher your emergency message. If you are calling for help, you want as many people on the receiving end of your transmission to be able to UNDERSTAND your message as possible. The emergency broadcast system (now the EAS) works on English Voice, NOT with morse code. And it is designed to be used in an emergency. Same with police, fire and ambulance radios. Imagine the president addressing the public with a morse code key. Might as well talk to a wall. In emergencies hams are NOT broadcasting to the public. In an emergency anyone is broadcasting to ANYONE that is listening. If you think a ham or anyone else in an emergency is not going to want a non-ham to help, or will refuse to deal with a non-ham you are crazy. In an emergency you can even use frequencies and radios at your access that you would not normally be licensed to operate on. We are talking about EMERGENCIES here. No time to waste playing morse code or taking the time to pound out a cry for help one letter at a time in a mode that only ends up sounding like silly beeps to most of the people listening on the other end that would otherwise be hearing your cry for help. Next time you are stranded in your car and need a tow, why don't you call on your cell phone and punch our your problem in morse code with the touch tone pad and see how fast you are able to get any assistance. Your call for assistance will be taken as a prank phone call and they will hang up on you and you will remain stranded until you decide to talk into the microphone so that someone can hear and understand your message. Common sense folks. You can pretend to say otherwise here on this newsgroup, but when the real emergency arises, the last thing on your mind will be playing with morse code! Then see how fast you can use a microphone and your voice! They are using their skills to pass messages from the public and emergency services to the public and emergency services via the ham network. No has to be able to understand the message while it is in transit except the hams. MOST hams don't understand morse code either! The no-code tech class has outnumbered the other license classes for years, and those that did learn the code only did so to pass the test and many never used it after the test. (like myself and all my ham friends) Send code to us and it will be nothing more than beep beep beep beep. I remember SOS and the letter R for some reason (probably since most repeaters end with R on their id) but that won't tell me where you are or what the problem is. Unless you talk to us, you can consider yourself dead in an emergency. Thus hams can and will use any means at their disposal appropriate to the situation, that includes voice, It sure does. |
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