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From: tech@auvax.UUCP (Richard Loken)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Morse code stinks
Message-ID: <425@auvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 13:42:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 12 13:42:35 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 23:46:21 EDT
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Organization: Athabasca U, Alberta
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I obtained the Canadian Amateur Operator's Certificate in 1969 - this 
licence allows only HF CW and most modes above 6 metres.  I have never
bothered to get a higher class licence because in my rather caustic
view, phone is B-O-R-I-N-G.  

Why not have licences that do not have CW privileges so you upgrade to CW?

In spite of Wayne Green's wild views about wildly complex equipment saving
us all during a nuclear war...I see only CW being much use when the chips
are down.  I can build a CW transmitter or receiver out of just about
anything if I have to.  We will all die in the year long winter anyway.

Eliminate the code exam.  If a person is interested in morse, he will
learn the code.

Richard Loken