[CW] The return of CW

[Gregory W. Moore]

Paul, FB on the assessment of the situation. FWIW, I have been waiting for the
"balloon to go up", the snow on the tv, the fried silicon, followed at the
appropriate time by the knock on the front door. Having been a Navy RM, and a
"Speed Key certificate holder..30 wpm, required to operate a bug on Navy CW
circuits (before it was placed in stasis), I can see the return of not only CW,
but of frantic searches for Boatanchors.
Given the present clear and present danger to the United States, and the threats
which have been bandied about by various nefarious parties, It really wouldn't
take much of an ionospheric (or even stratospheric) nuke detonation to cause the
EMP pulse which would render much of the infrastructure of the US into recycling
material.
I don't think that there is a single CW afficinado who hasn't given some thought
to what is left. One would have LF/MF/HF and with the aftereffects of the blast,
enough interference to leave CW, or FSK with mechanical teleprinters what was
left.
When that day comes, there are going to be one heck of a lot of posteriors
hanging over the abyss, and a lot of red faces who made promises concerning comm
reliability that just didn't come true when the rubber finally hit the road.
As far as security, I really don't want to go into detail, but systems which
were effective 30 and more years now would be just as effective now. The Walker
debacle, and their traitorous behavior, might have given info, but the basic
equipment is still secure, with some new "additions" of which I will not discuss
here. It would be back to 5 letter groups and authentication, but, in the end,
isn't what it is all about anyway?
When everything else fails, CW works, even if one has to build one's own spark
rig, the traffic will move, and information will be disseminated.
I have always figured that the day would finally come when Armageddon was
staring one and all in the face, and FedEx's trucks and aircraft are immobile
with fried silicon. When "It Absolutely, Positively, Has To Be Delivered
Overnight", what is left are vacuum tubes, VLF/LF/MF/HF and the people pounding
brass. I believe that the government knows this about as well as we do, but
don't want to admit the basic facts.
73 de Greg WA3IVX

Paul wrote:

> .
>  Think  how many critical security patches and downloads, every version of
> windows, which concludes that  messages on the web are increasingly
> vulnerable to hackers  and are far from secure, because even with security
> patches, Microsoft keeps on issuing never ending security updates.
> What if we use cw over the web ??.   To start with , only a handful of
> people are willing to use morse, you either like it or hate it. Ok you might
> say a decoder will decode everything. But if the messages are in five digit
> code, which only humans can decode ??  This is only a  first impression.
>
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