[KYHAM] Why CW

[Anthony W. DePrato]

At 10:30 PM 1/22/2004 -0500, N4AOF wrote:
>I have heard this same really silly claim made repeatedly.
>
>
>Unless you are willing to have a QSO entirely made up of Q-Signals,
>Prosigns, and Callsigns, CW does absolutely nothing to work arround
>language barriers.
>
>SNIP:

SORRY but WRONG.. cw and Q Signals are known world wide. i have had 100's 
of qso's with stations what could not speak english nor i their language. 
but we had a short qso via what all hams should learn and know the basic of 
a qso .
correct we did not have a long winded qso But tell me when was the last 
time you had a qso over 3 mins unless it was a group you have known for a 
while?
WHAT most do not know is that ham radio has NO language barriers.. even on 
voice. handle qth rst tnx and 73 cu agn are known world wide  . the 
majority of the world speak more then one language . the USA because it is 
too hard to learn another one does not. but if i recall english is the one 
of the hardest languages to learn.
with respect
73
QBU ZUT DE WA4JQS SK