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From: stephany.WBST@XEROX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: mpackard rides again - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 12:10:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 17 12:10:00 1984
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JUST ONE LAST WORD ON NO-CODE:

ASCII code cannot be read off the air by ear morse code can be.  You
cannot compare ASCII with Morse and claim ASCII is a substatute.

Morse is still the final backup system when all else fails.  To know it
is to have  communication skill.  I don't see how anyone can claim to be
skilled in Radio without knowing it.  The U.S. Navy requires 10 % of its
radiomen to be skilled in Morse.  They have to be skilled to become
petty officers and therefore they must learn it within 2 years after
entering or else not get promoted.  All radio men aboard polaris and
trident subs must know morse.  The Ultimate  backup communication system
of the U.S. navy is morse.  They send it at 300 H.z

				Joe N2XS.