[CW] Morse code announced to be Immaterial World Heritage oftheUNESCO

Mon Nov 3 16:38:31 EST 2014

I served Uncle Sam, in a small base called Kagnew Station, up on an 
8,000 ft high mountain in Ethiopia.  Our little home brew 2 element, 3 
band Quad, sat on top of a water tower, at the highest point in the city 
of Asmara.  It was so far up that our rotator wouldnt work because we 
didnt have a large enough control wire and the wire wouldnt deliver 
enough voltage to turn it.  We sat it pointing stateside and there we 
worked EVERYBODY.    But I digress,  and the true "old" antenna was a 
buried cable, maybe thousands of feet long, which I saw there.  It had 
previously been used by the small Naval contingent there, to communicate 
with submarines in the Red Sea.  I dont know how that worked - but 
apparently did.  Probably still there, if anyone wants to go to Eritrea 
and put it on the air.  Suggestion - DONT.

> Richard Knoppow via CW <mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Monday, November 03, 2014 3:32 PM
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via CW" 
> <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>; "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 12:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [CW] Morse code announced to be Immaterial World Heritage 
> oftheUNESCO
>
>
>
>     Well, for historical preservation I think one must have, for 
> instance, RCA fishbone antennas or large rhombics or long beverage 
> antennas or large, flat-top, umbrella antennas (for 160 and 
> experimental 600 meters).  Some can be made rotating by means of 
> railroad tracks. Plus property tax exemption for the large farms 
> necessary.  Perhaps we can get somthing additional for animal 
> preservation by having (as I once saw at KSE) a horse grazing around 
> the towers.
>
>
> -- 
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
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> D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via CW <mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Monday, November 03, 2014 3:21 PM
>
> Hello HB,
>
> I think there are special tax credits for historic preservation.
>
> Log periodics that cover 6.9 MHz to 30 MHz, massive rotators, and 120 
> foot walk-up towers, heliax cables will be completely be eligible for 
> a tax credit.  If you pay $65,000 for such, you get a check for 
> $65,000 from the US Treasury.  All radios with Morse ability are 
> covered as well.  I guess a StepIR antenna would beat the old logs.
>
> Just kidding folks, hang up the phones, US Tower stock just doubled in 
> price though.
>
> 73
>
> DR
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> Radio K0HB via CW <mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Monday, November 03, 2014 3:03 PM
> OK, I'll bite.
>
> How do you "protect" CW?
>
> ....Make it a crime to throw away a crappy Bencher paddle?
>
> ....Require daily posting to this reflector?
>
> ....Require a doctors order to use a microphone?
>
> ....Require school children to hold their hand over their heart each 
> morning and pledge allegiance to Morse?
>
> ....Establish Morsodism as a recognized tax-exempt religion?
>
> High sounding noble sentiment, but as a practical matter really 
> nothing more than that.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: pa0wv via CW
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 11:12 AM
> To: cw at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [CW] Morse code announced to be Immaterial World Heritage of 
> theUNESCO
>
> The chairman of the VERON , Remy Denker PA3AGF, has guided the
> Netherlands as the first country in the world that managed to get Morse
> Code  protected by the UNESCO as immaterial world cultural heritage.
>
> Belgium (ON) will follow soon.
>
> So this makes CW not just another digital mode, but it gives hams the
> challenge to keep the heritage alive. Hw abt the ARRL?
>
> Wim PA0WV
>
> 73 = 30
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> pa0wv via CW <mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Monday, November 03, 2014 6:12 AM
> The chairman of the VERON , Remy Denker PA3AGF, has guided the 
> Netherlands as the first country in the world that managed to get 
> Morse Code  protected by the UNESCO as immaterial world cultural 
> heritage.
>
> Belgium (ON) will follow soon.
>
> So this makes CW not just another digital mode, but it gives hams the 
> challenge to keep the heritage alive. Hw abt the ARRL?
>
> Wim PA0WV
>
> 73 = 30
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