"Dick Carroll" wrote in message
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Dwight Stewart wrote:

"Mike Coslo" wrote:

Dwight Stewart wrote:

Isn't Code more of a skill than a knowledge? Any
person can look at a piece of paper with a code
chart on it and translate code, but that doesn't
mean they have the skill to send or receive code
over a radio. Wasn't the latter the ultimate
purpose of the code test?

One must know the Morse code to send and recieve it.

You're right. Perhaps memorizing the individual sequence of sounds
associated with a letter of the alphabet is knowledge on some very basic
level, similar to a young child memorizing the sounds associated with
the
letters of the alphabet. Amazing that this would become a key focus of
testing in ham radio for so many years.

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Mygawd, Dwight, are you really licensed as a ham? And *that's* all you
know of
radiotelegraphy?
You been hiding out in the wilderness somewhere, in a cave? What do you
think
it was that started
radio in the first place, semaphores?


No doubt what started ham radio was an experiment using the best of what was
around then. Perhaps you'd like to move into the most recent century, Dick.
If ham radio were "invented" today, it would never even get near CW.

Kim W5TIT


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