[Qcwa] For Who ever asked!

Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:01:33 -0500

Joe......different strokes for different folks..

As you remember I was a high speed operator at WAR 41/42.....when I left in
the Fall of 42 WAR was already in the throes of a conversion to high speed
radiotype circuitry.  It was not long before they had no CW circuits left.

In the military establishment over 20 years ago all new equipment came minus
a key jack and today there are just a few SSB radiio sets;  everything else
is wireless laptops with mobile relay units.

MARS merely followed the military establishment and just did away with their
CW nets......there was no "banning" as such.

If anything, I believe that MARS lost a lot of very good CW operators who
had no interest in going to phone.
Some very old time friends of mine included.

In any event I wish you good luck as State MARS Coordinator;  they need more
guys like you.

73    Norm     K1AA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Fenn" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Qcwa] For Who ever asked!

> Norm,
> Have to differ with you on that one.   CW was banned from all
> MARS freqcys and not allowed since that last code speed test
> which WAR sent out.  I am State MARS coordinator for Hawaii
> and can quote the actual wording in OP-ORD-02 which was the
> most recent updates to all MARS users.  Speed of course
> was probably their reason so by banning cw they figured
> the CW guys would have to go the MARS route or leave MARS.
>                       Joe/ABM6JF
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