[Elecraft] Morse *TEST* code elimination

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/15/06 10:57:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lacosta at bcpl.net writes:


> Wonder if the prices of paddles and keys will now escalate?

Probably. 


> 
> How soon will it be before we see rigs that have no provision to use CW?
> 

Where ya been for the past 40 years?

Way back in the early 1960s, there were SSB rigs like the SBE-33 and SBE-34, 
the Heath HW-12/22/32, and the WRL "Duo-Bander" that were SSB only. And that's 
just the ones I remember without looking it up.

In those days and years afterward most amateur HF transceivers had CW as an 
afterthought. No sharp filter, nor provision for one. No RIT, no way to turn 
off the AGC, no built-in keyer, sometimes not even a sidetone. Those things were 
only added as rigs became more complex, and sharp filters are still almost 
always an extra-cost add-on. 

One of the reasons I bought a K2 was that it was a serious rig designed as a 
CW transceiver with SSB as an add-on, not the other way around.

73 de Jim, N2EY