[QCWA] FCC Drops Morse

[Joseph Fenn]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Paul L Schmidt, K9PS wrote:

> Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
>
>> Just like driving a car and getting a driver's license, they no longer
>> require
>> you to know how to hand crank a Model T, nor expect you to know which
>> end of a horse to put the hay in. Of course, with SOME of the drivers I
>> have to deal with in Los Angeles, an artificial barrier like that would
>> be a
>> "Good Thing(tm)".
>>
I personally fell that its no big deal anymore.  Most of us old timers
that not only as a hobby but we made our bread for many years with
cw, are old now with arthritic fingers (cant use a bug no more)
maybe can pound a hand key up to 10 wpm  for same reasons.
So whats the big deal about loss of cw.
                     Joe/kH6JF