[Elecraft] OT: VOA Article about Hams in India

[Daniel Reynolds]

--- lonnie.m.juli at verizon.net wrote:
> I also understand that the DXpedition relied on CW at the beginning of their
> relief effort so that they could operate successfully with small antenna
> systems and low power. If the FCC and its counterparts around the world keep
> doing away with the Morse requirement, who will be there to copy weak,
> hastily assembled stations in the future?


Here Here!!! (... however - I think you just preached to the choir)

I think that as long as there is QRP, Elecraft, kit building, and ham radio in
general - there will always be CW (unless they one day decide to make CW
illegal ... which would be really dumb - they still use AM don't they - however
I think they did ban spark gap transmitters, but not because they were morse
code). I don't think CW will ever go out of style. People still use sailboats
(and sailboards!) even though steam ships were developed over 100 years ago.
People still use hot air baloons even though we just celebrated the first
century of powered flight. We still make kids learn how to write by hand with
#2 pencils even though most American students have access to a computer and
know how to use one. No - I think that we are quite a long way from seeing the
end of CW. The CW bug 'infects' a certain kind of person. There's no known
antivirus/antibiotic for this kind of 'infection' - and it spreads readily.

72,
Daniel / AA0NI