[CW] Here come the Attacks!

[W2AGN]

Now that the ARRL has come out with its proposal, here come the attacks on the 
CW bands. This is copied from another Reflector, just to show the ignorance 
that is out there.

/quote
A Much more important issue to me is the fact that CW is dead for all 
practical purposes, it "IS" still a means of communicating when nothing 
else will work.  but the FACT is the TIMES have changed,  YOU can go into 
the CW portion of the band and dial up and down for 100's of KC's and NEVER 
hear a signal.   And, you can call CQ at times for over and HOUR and 
finally just give up because NOBODY will come back to you.  Question to ASK 
YOURSELF.   When was the last time  "YOU" made a CW Contact? HUH? if its 
been at least  5 years or more then this will be a "hoss" you may want to 
ride!

My thought is that we petition the FCC, to OPEN  most all The CW portion of 
the band for Phone operation, leave 5 to 10 kc's for all the CW op's to be 
able to go there and find, a MUCH more used portion of the Band.  But 
reallocate the rest of the CW portion of the bands for phone operation, 
still maintaining some LICENSE classification separation!

IF, these ARRL  PROPOSED changes  do in fact get put into Law, then at the 
same time we could have perhaps a bit more phone band to help over come 
the  ONSLAUGHT of the newly  licensed and the Grand fathered higher classes.
/unquote

The battle has just begun!


-- 
John W2AGN
http://w2agn.net