[CW] Re: CW Digest, Vol 56, Issue 11

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Thank you, David, for sharing this wonderful story with us. Indeed such tales could fill volumes and every time I read one it is as fresh as the first.

Ray Redwood documented superbly the necessity of CW and lobbied heavily against GMDSS. But, as is so often the case, one lone USCG middleweight supervisor had a bug up his nose about Morse. He also enjoyed the wining and dining of the company that used him to "sell" their GMDSS system to the Coast Guard and the world. Fortunately water seeks its own level, so to speak, and we are beginning to see a trickle of turn around. The US Navy has begun training CW operators again and the ham MARS system is restarting their CW nets.

Full color digital photographs are certainly stunning. But wouldn't life be dull and bland if we cast aside the ancient great works of art hanging in the Louvre? 

58, 73, QTX es ZUT,

Vern WA9VLK


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