[ARC5] US Morse Exam History...Commercial versus mateur (OT)

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>


> Well, I used the VLF Navy stations, NPM, NPG, NSS,..

The last time I heard VLF Morse was NSS.  
Long time ago- late 1970s.  Was it 19 KC?

They were sending "VVV DE NSS NSS NSS,"
then they would send the "Now is the time for all good men..."
phrase.  However, there was a random error inserted 
in each itteration of the phrase, like: 
"Now is the time for alf good men...." and the next one,
"Noa is the time for...."

Was this intentional, part of a "copy it exactly; don't guess"
training or what?

I miss it, too.  
The communications systems we all utterly rely upon today
are built upon a tenuous, fragile web.  Some day, Abdul 
or Wo Ping is going to burn it down for us 
and we'll all be back in 1831.
Needlesssly discarding so simple, reliable and universal 
a system of communication as Morse 
is going to be a costly mistake.