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From: rcf@inuxd.UUCP (R Fitch)
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Subject: CODE IS NECESSARY
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Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 14:04:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 16 14:04:51 1984
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	Your comments on NO CODE are good and the guys that say "I did it
	so should you" are appropriately cited.  I like CODE and as many
	others have testified, in an emergency ( by the way this is what
	Amateur Radio is about except for those hobbiest only guys) CW
	is the answer . A basic question on the FCC test asks what HAM
	radio is to be used for. The answer is to further develope
	technical skills in communications and for "PUBLIC SERVICE".

	All in all I believe that CODE is quite important "NOT" to "KEEP
	OUT the CB'ers" but to insure the necessary skills to perform
	the REAL Amateur Radio Tradition to serve the public.

	NO the HAM RADIO has not lost it's thunder!!!!!  We are very
	much in the news on sattelite communinications, over seas message
	delivery(by the way I have had to resort to CODE to get important
	messages through that other methods failed), disater communications,
	PACKET RADIO, SPREAD SPECTRUM, etc,etc,etc.

	The bottom line is ,  HAM radio is a hobby SECOND and a service
	first. To do that and do it well we must know the basic modes
	of opereation to get the job done. By the way I have taught several
	quote "CBers" and they are all first class operaters as HAMS.

					73's  RICH KN9K