[Fists] Re: end of CW

[JohnEXI@aol.com]

Hello Friends:
 Well, here we go again the soothsayers are sounding the death knell of CW. 
The truth of the matter is CW will have its notch on the bands! They said the 
same thing about every mode that is still operating on the bands. Ancient 
modulation was put to the knife but it survived and there are still those 
that practice it. RTTY was also supposed to be out but it to is still going 
strong, the only thing that really did disappear was the RTTY mailbox. Those 
of you that get the ARRL newsletter on line  should try to read a little 
between the lines, the survey that they conducted is not really tainted it is 
they are not telling you the truth. In their results they state and I quote 
the figures as ALMOST 44%, ALMOST 49% and the highest one was an ALMOST 50% 
for expanding the phone bands into the novice portion. Looking at those 
figures one can see that the majority of the survey on all bands is against 
expanding the phone bands, or am I the only one that noticed that.

No matter what anyone thinks the fact remains that CW will live, Heck so they 
wont test for it is that a big deal? They don't give you a test for a lot of 
things like packet or RTTY or AM or even SSB!

John, WB2EXI
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