[Elecraft] get to your local library.

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2011 22 Jan 08:41 -0600, Jim Wiley wrote:
> This does not mean that learning and using Morse code is being 
> discouraged - just the opposite is true.  Both the ARRL  and the W5YI / 
> Gordon West groups reported a while back that sales of code practice 
> tapes and other code learning materials are more popular than ever.  
> Some observers have reported that on the air code traffic is booming, 
> and that it is becoming hard to find a "hole" in which to start a QSO on 
> some days.

That is good news.  I know that the Straight Key Century Club (SKCC) is
busy, both on the air and on their mailing list.  Membership count is
now near 7600.  SKCC maintains 7114 kc as an 'Elmer' frequency.
New/slow ops are encouraged to start there and make QSOs.

Once I got my head around the fact that Morse exams would be going away,
I began to think that the pessimists who asserted that the use of CW on
the amateur bands would fade away would be proven wrong.  It looks like
I am happily correct.

73, de Nate N0NB >>

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