[CW] future of CW

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:04:12 -0400

I think Ron's question should be stated:

I can't understand why US MARS outlawed cw when it was using it on its nets.

CW nets were only stopped because MARS regulations forbid CW -- MARS didn't
stop having the nets, then they decided that CW was to be banned.  Most MARS
members were angry and a majority quit MARS in response to this.

A comment about this event:  Aproximately 70% of MARS members quit MARS
after this happened.

The head Naval Officer in-charge of MARS in Washington was at the time Dave
W1DV and he couldn't convince the others - and in particular one ARMY
officer who was dead set against CW to NOT do this.

Many of the MARS members were quite willing to do SSB and RTTY - but "as
long as I can do my CW nets!".

It is obvious that MARS did nothing to react at the democratic "voting" with
the members "feet".  They simply got on without them.

73

DR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald KA4INM Youvan" <[email protected]>
To: "cw" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] future of CW

> >  I have been enjoying this discussion about the future of CW.
> >  I cannot see why cw would be made an illegal mode like spark
>
>    We can't understand why US MARS outlawed cw when it quit
> using it on it's nets.
> --
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