[Elecraft] get to your local library.

[Amateur Radio Operator N5GE]

That's great news, Nate!

By the way...  I notice a lot of operators sending "E N" when answering a turn
over and confirming questions.  Is that a new "cool" way to send Roger (R), or
have I missed something in the last twenty years or so?

73,

Tom Childers
Radio Amateur N5GE
Licensed since 1976
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:50:30 -0600, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us>  wrote:

>* 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 >>