[CW] future of CW

Thomas Beaudry [email protected]
Sat, 26 Jul 2003 04:04:18 -0400


> 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.

Interesting.  I just read a CNN article the other day that the Army is 
crying for MARS operators in Iraq.  Seems they are extremely rare and 
other forms of communications are not practicable where the majority of 
their troops are stationed.

-- 
Thomas M. Beaudry
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