"Kim W5TIT" wrote in
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"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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Complaints to
Do you know why, though Kim. Morse intended his system to be 100%
automated. Sending by hand and receiving by ear only came about because
the electro-mechanical systems of the day were unreliable. This happened
even before radio was invented. So you're right, now we use computers for
data modes a chain of events like that would be impossible.