[KCDXC] Morse Code

[Lee Ward]

The handwriting has been on the wall for a long time.
Morse Code as a requirement to get a ham license is going away.

My observations in my 43 years as a ham:

1) Morse Code knowledge has never made someone a better person.
   (look at me)
2) Morse Code knowledge has never made someone a better operator.
   (look at me)
3) Morse Code knowledge has never made someone a better homebrewer.
   (look at me)
4) Morse Code knowledge has never made someone a better engineer.
   (look at me)
5) Morse Code knowledge has never made someone a better antenna builder,
   designer, putterupper, or anything to do with antennas.
   (maybe I can do that better, Code did it)
6) Morse Code is just a great mode for contesting, DXing and all
   around fun in this hobby, just like RTTY, PSK, ATV, FM, SSB, and the
   real wave of the future AM.

It is glaringly obvious to me that we need more hams in the ranks of
any age to help keep the bands and perpetuate the hobby. Let's not let
Morse Code be a block to the future of the hobby.

Don't give me that "the average age is getting older" that's a math
exercise that has been gone over and over for decades. It was even
explained in an editorial in a 1947 QST that W0JM gave me. It's not
new.

If you hear someone struggling along at 10 WPM calling CQ, give him a
call, he is really trying to get better at a mode and he needs your
help.

The only thing my knowledge of Morse Code has done for me is make me
handsome........how about you?

I should have saved this for the newsletter, but I just had to type
something

The times they are a changing!

73 es wk more DX (CW slang),

K0LW, El Presidente Maximo
                          mailto:lee at crcltd.com



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