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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: morse code
Message-ID: <516@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 17 Dec 90 18:12:45 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>>  Say, why do people use morse nowadays anyway?

>For conformance with antiquated regulations, because they're old-fashioned,
>or because they're stranded on a desert island which is well-supplied with
>analog electronic parts but has no digital parts.  Morse is basically
>obsolete, since digital modulation techniques are far superior at punching
>clean signals through noise.

Conformance with regs has nothing to do with it. Nobody will force you
to go anywhere near a key after you get your license. Besides, some of
us *like* CW.

You know, if I changed the above question to:

	Say, why do people use 16 bit architectures nowadays anyway?

your answer would still apply. Come on, Henry - you've only had a
"no code" computer for a year or so :-)

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    Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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