[Elecraft] Digimodes what am I missing? (OT)

[Mike Morrow]

> There are ... no professional CW operators.

The FCC still issues *commercial* radiotelegraph licenses.

The commercial First Class and the Second Class radiotelegraph
licenses still existed until just TEN MONTHS ago.  Then the First
Class license was eliminated and the Second Class license was
renamed the "Radiotelegraph Operator License" (no class shown).

There are many professional Morse operators still among us, like
my fiend Al/W5KGM who served as an airline Morse operator and as
a merchant marine radio officer on WWII Atlantic convoys.

Use of any "digi" mode requires less operator skill than does
Morse.  That explains at least some of the popularity.  As an
earlier post stated...it all looks like e-mail to me.

Mike / KK5F