[South Florida DX Association] RE-INSTITUTED W MORSE CODE TRAINING.

[Bill Marx]

>From another list:
-Bill W2CQ


FYI,
>
> My son in law who is with the Navy here in the Panhandle works out a Corry
> Station which is a Navy facility here in Pensacola near the Pensacola Navy
> Base. The Corry Station organization provides the Navy Communications
> personnel with training in a wide range of Crypto and communications
systems
> that are used throughout the Navy.
>
> He has told me that the Navy organization at Corry Station has
RE-INSTITUTED
> CW MORSE CODE TRAINING.
>
> It looks like with further analysis of the cw mode of operations with
> technology advances such as super high speed cw as well as the fact that
> human cw operators can adjust the speeds on a random basis provides
several
> advantages to other digital modes that are of a fixed data rate and/or
> format.
>
> So, overall, it looks like the Navy sees some future capabilities that
still
> make cw very useful for communications operations.
>
> So, the fact that there are bureaucratic committees and organizations are
> voting to remove cw so they don't have to manage another mode, that
doesn't
> mean that real technology communications analysts are not still looking at
> how cw fits into future technology insertion applications.
>
>
> Jim
> K4PV