Kids do seem to like CW. I have taught two 3rd grade classes as part of
a unit on the physics of sound and am about to do a third. Every kid
was interested, therewere a few kids in each class who were
hyper-interested.
Leigh/WA5ZNU
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 1:11 pm, Les Warriner wrote:
> The United States was the LAST country of the world requiring it for
> testing. Now there is NO country requiring it. Does that not say
> something? It's fun, it's great, it has some definite uses but so does
> RTTY. Should that be required too? I teach it to my kids in school.
> They drive teachers bonkers with it. They will never cease using it.
> But they also use many other digital modes.
>
> 73
>
> Les
>
> At 12:42 PM 2/19/2007, you wrote:
>
>> Charlie,
>>
>> No reasonable person can deny that the FCC no longer considers CW a
>> necessary skill for radio amateurs to have. At one time it was
>> something
>> of significance, now it is not. At one time, CW skills were something
>> the government wanted maintained within a subset of the population
>> because it might be needed during wartime. This is no longer true since
>> even the military (with a few exceptions) no longer uses CW.
>>
>> CW was only a necessary skill on amateur frequencies during the
>> earliest
>> days. Once voice modes, and much later, RTTY modes, became common, CW
>> was no longer a necessary skill for ham radio. For many hams, CW was
>> abandoned for the remainder of their operating years. The percentage of
>> radio amateurs who operate CW for at least part of their operating
>> time, has been decreasing drastically and will likely continue to
>> decrease, but this is something left up to each individual to decide.
>>
>> If you listen to the ham bands today, compared to a few decades ago, it
>> would be obvious that there are many fewer operators sending CW.
>>
>> BPL issues just go to show you how incorrect bureaucrats can be when it
>> comes to new technology. Just because something is new, does not
>> necessarily make it useful or even desirable.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Rick, KV9U
>>
>> Charlie Wilber wrote:
>>
>>> "KV9U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> "Clearly, the FCC no longer considers CW a necessary skill. No
>>> reasonable person can deny that."
>>> ==========
>>>
>>> No "reasonable person" can deny what? That CW is no longer a necessary
>>> skill or that the FCC no longer considers it to be so? If you meant
>>> the former, your arrogant generalization is unfortunate and incorrect.
>>> If the latter, we need only remember that the FCC also considers BPL
>>> to be a benign technology that has no effect on amateur radio to
>>> understand the error of that statement. Any reasonable person will
>>> understand that.
>>>
>>> Charlie Wilber
>>> N1AOK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
