[Elecraft] CW in Emergencies?

[Rick Hampton]

Hi, Dave.

This is an interesting idea, but it presupposes the new hams are taught traffic
handling, ICS training, and other things that makes them able to pass emergency
traffic with ANY rig.  Maybe we should consider teaching Morse skills as a part
of emergency communications.  After all, as much as an anathema as it may be to
us, not everyone wants to learn emergency operations, just as some do not want
to learn CW.

Rick
WD8KEL

Dave Lowenstein wrote:

> The disadvantage of "no-code" is that if new hams aren't required to learn
> CW, how are they going to be able handle emergency traffic from our
> low-powered battery-operated K1's and K2's?  Since emergencies are one of
> our reasons for being and CW gets through with simple equipment where other
> modes won't, aren't we shooting ourselves in the foot by eliminating the CW
> requirement?
>
> Dave
> N7AF