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

[Radio K0HB via CW]

I'm an an avid CW operator.  If you could examine my account at 
www.clublog.org you would find over 61,000 QSO's in the past decade or so. 
57%CW, 38%Phone, and 5%DATA.

I mention this in opening to establish that I am not "anti-Morse".  I want 
Morse to continue into the future, at least as long as I have not assumed 
room temperature.

Having said that.....

Current rules in my country allow the use of Morse on virtually EVERY 
FREQUENCY open to Amateur Radio.  EVERY FREQUENCY!  In at least one band, 
they have an exclusive segment not available to use by any other mode. No 
other mode enjoys such wide frequency privilege.

Except for 160m and 30m, each other mode is restricted by our rules to only 
segments of each band.

While this grand privilege of CW does not exist in every country, at least 
in the USA no other mode is "protected" to the extent that CW is.  Yet you 
call out the ARRL to provide protection.  Of course, ARRL is just a radio 
club, and has no authority to regulate anything.

Now, back to the two bands, 160 and 30 meters.  While "every mode can 
operate everywhere", Amateurs have admirably self-selected certain parts of 
those band for certain uses, and all are happy.

Amateur radio is first and foremost an experimental playground.  I oppose in 
principle any regulation which favors ANY mode above ANY other mode.

Be careful what you wish for.  Next we will have factions demanding 
protection for their favorite "Historic Modes", with protected segments for 
AM, RTTY, etc., etc.

Bad precedent!  If AM or RTTY (both arguably "Historic") get an exclusive 
band segment, would CW be allowed?  Carried to it's logical conclusion, we 
would eventually find that CW would lose its' existing "anywhere/anytime" 
privileges.

73, de Hans, K0HB



-----Original Message----- 
From: pa0wv via CW
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 6:10 PM
To: cw at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [CW] Morse code announced to be Immaterial World Heritage 
oftheUNESCO

Radio K0HB wrote:
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OK, I'll bite.

How do you "protect" CW?

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I rremember somebody writing here and taking action against ARRL about
giving permission for digital modes up to 3 kHz bandwidth, to give them
the CW part of the HF bands available for their tansmissions instead of
(part of) the phone band.

Well a good argument may be  that the protection by the UNESCO of A1A
transmissions is an objection to do that.

It is not just one of the digital modes, but is is protected cultural
heritage.

Wim PA0WV
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