[CW] Our Position on Morse Requirement

[Rein A. Smit]

   Hi All,

   Having watched the writings on CW on this board for a couple of years, it  
   keeps amazing me what is driving most of you and how little you learn, it seems!

   If the use of CW in amateur radio is so great and I fully agree with you then
   why not promote CW and make sure you can keep using CW in the future by 
   setting aside and protecting bandwidth for the mode?

   It is that point that should be your sole focus. Forcing people to learn
   code against their will or understanding of the great advantages in 
   weak signal in particular, is not going to help you a bit in the preservation
   of CW or bandwidth. 

   It might keep good people out of amateur radio but that is in nobody's interest!
   In today's world CW is just another mode, effective yes, but only for people that
   enjoy and use it, like any other mode in amateur radio.  

   If an amateur is interested in DX, weak signal or just having qso's with nice 
   people using low power, he or she will at one point or another want to explore
   the code as a means. Forget about all the others, they will never use cw.
   
   OK we did make the effort to train for the code either forced in the military
   or to get a license or a job. So what, it is history like so many other things in 
   the hobby and live today. 

   Would you really believe that spies in enemy territory would use CW today, 
   perhaps the only argument for real QRP work or that the receiving side
   would not use any computer receive enhancement available? 
   I am sure the Russians can't forget those days for a long time to come. They
   want still to have lots a so-called trained radio operators around. They are
   out of touch with their young people and reality as well.

   I spend time lots of time in Asia where every kid has a cell phone and is using 
   it for hours a day. Do you really think they are going to learn code if they do
   not really want to experience RADIO and via in environment, CW? 
   
   On the other hand those who like to experience real radio will at a point like
   be able the use CW. Is not that what counts in the end and the ability to find
   a free frequency?

   Please grow up and work towards world wide Radio Administration's enforced
   band planning and operating discipline. If you work other than CW in the CW
   band we will get you in the end because it is the law!

   73 Rein PA0ZN    
    



   
 
Jim Glover wrote:
> 
> > 3) Those who are pushing for HF privileges, without having to put in the
> > effort to pass a morse test, will get both digital and phone privileges.
> 
> This point is stated as if founded on an inaccurate, unwarranted
> assumption, that the people who support no-code HF access are composed
> primarily of those who have not yet attained HF privileges, and that
> their motivation is based on hopes of avoiding "the effort to pass a
> morse test."
> 
> I hope you will not present this as any sort of consensus.  It is bad
> enough when individual hams speak as if they believe that the no-code
> faction is composed of nothing other than no-code technicians and
> non-licensees who are motivated by a lazy desire to avoid work.  It
> would be even more injurious to the health of the ham community if
> this sort of insult were presented as the consensus of the CW-loving
> faction.
> 
> Many who support the elimination of the requirement for Morse testing
> for HF access already have HF access, and/or genuinely believe that it
> simply is not in the amateur radio service's best interests to continue
> to require Morse testing for HF access.  These people do not deserve
> to be dismissed as a bunch of wanna-be's who wanna-be without effort.
> 
> 73,
> Jim  WB5UDE
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