RadioBanter - View Single Post - FUD ALERT !!!!! (was With CW gone, can the CW allocations be far behind?)

July 30th 03, 04:19 AM

(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
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(Brian) writes:

(Michael Black) wrote in message
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This reminds me of the time Marconi spanned the Atlantic. I remember
he told his assistant "I'm not going to wait until voice modulation
is invented, because I want to give morse code favored status".

Then twenty years later, when hams spanned the Atlantic with shortwaves,
they all said "let's not use that newfangled voice stuff, because
we want to give morse code a favored status". Obviously, Howard
Armstrong who we have to "blame" for all the receivers we use even
today, must have been part of that conspiracy to keep AM in it's place,
since he was part of one of the official transmitting sites for
the attempt.

Of course, there were all those hams in the early days who used
only morse code because they wanted to give it favored status.
It's a myth that they used it because a cw transmitter was simpler
and less expensive.

Let's not forgot OSCAR 1, launched in December of 1961. Those
guys obviously had it send morse code because they wanted to give
the mode favored status.

Michael VE2BVW

You forgot the Titanic.

So...the Titanic sank after receiving mode-favored-status...not something
the Kode Klutz Klan wants to put at the top of their list.

LHA

Len, I didn't say anything about the Titanic's sinking, so lets keep
this positive. But being probably the most famous vessel ever, I
thought it would be prudent to include it on the above Morse-users
list. And now there's a pump-key being marketed called the "Titanic."
Something to be proud to own. I'd put it in the bottom of a
salt-water aquarium to give it that correct historical look.

Brian