RE: [amsat-bb] CW

[Mark West <MarkW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just your fingers and your brain? sounds like sign language. What you are
referring
to requires such 'artificail' props as a key, an oscillator, an amplifier,
coax,
an antenna, a speaker, electricity, and God knows what else. You are being
curiously
selective in what technology you are embracing. Yes, CW is elegant and
nostalgic 
and all that, just like a horse and carriage, but can a human operate CW at
9600 
baud? Wake up, technology moves forward, those who embrace it will be more
efficient.

- Mark West

>-----Original Message-----
>From: K3ROJAL@aol.com [mailto:K3ROJAL@aol.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 4:29 PM
>To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
>Subject: [amsat-bb] CW
>
>
>CW is the most important mode of communications in Ham Radio. Is Mr. 
>Hollingsworth a ham operator? Just listen around 14.015 or 7.030 anytime
and 
>you will hear the worlds greatest operators.  Anyone can punch a keyboard
for 
>packet or press that microphone button for voice operation. It is great to
be 
>able to talk to other people using only your fingers and your brain. Wake
up. 
>Without sufficient morse code speed requirements in licensing, ham radio
will 
>die.
----
Via the amsat-bb mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA.
To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe amsat-bb" to Majordomo@amsat.org