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October 30th 05, 04:42 PM

"Iitoi" wrote in message
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Wrote:

It's also a wonderful thing to hear people of all ages on the ham
bands, working each other regardless of age, gender, race, religion,
etc., without prejudice or classification by same. Morse Code and the
"data modes" are better for this than voice.

Why are those modes "better" than voice?

Seems that a voice conversation, under almost every circumstance, would
lead to a richer exchange of information and better interperson
understanding than either Morse or "data" modes. Voices naturally
convey emotion and mood, allow an almost continuous range of emphasis,
and can use different inflection to add subtle but important syntactic
variations to many words. None of this is possible in Morse or "data"
modes, except in some very crude ways such as emoticons.

The Man in the Maze
QRV at Baboquivari Peak, AZ

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Iitoi

I believe that his point was that on the non-voice modes, you cannot tell
whether someone is male or female or whether they are young or old. So that
there is less chance of them being discriminated against or harassed by
those who think women or young people should not be on the radio.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE