[AMRadio] American Morse Illegal on the Ham Bands? or JohnnyJohnston put in his Place

[Jim Wilhite]

John Johnson is writing a column for the QCWA Journal now.  I haven't see 
the latest and don't recall that subject in the last issue.  The Journal is 
published quarterly and the new one is due very soon.

Jim
W5JO


----- Original Message ----- 

> At Dayton this past weekend, I visited the Morse Telegraph Club stall, and
> an interesting subject came up, a rumour that the FCC had outlawed the use
> of the American landline Morse Code on the amateur bands. Jim Wades, 
> WB8SIW,
> told me this was started by a retired FCC official who writes a monthly
> column in a ham publication. The first name to come to mind was Riley
> Hollingsworth, whose column appears in CQ magazine. Jim said no, it was 
> not
> Riley, but he couldn't think of the person's name. It immediately dawned 
> on
> me that it was probably Johnny Johnston, who wrote a monthly column in the
> now defunct World Radio magazine. That jogged Jim's memory, and he said 
> yes
> indeed, that's who it was.
>