[CW] Here come the Attacks!

[Makos327@att.net]

Geez, John ... 

The announcement from the ARRL came out when ... Monday or Tuesday?
And you found this on a reflector today?  I'm surprised it took this long!

73 de Larry W2LJ

--
Makos327@att.net
> 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
> _______________________________________________
> CW mailing list
> CW@mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw