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

[Kim Elmore]

He writes the "W3BE-gram" column and serves as the QCWA FCC guru. I don't think much of him or his column based on what I've read over the years. It's disappointing to know that he still has a following. 

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

On May 20, 2013, at 14:28, "Jim Wilhite" <w5jo at brightok.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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