That's great news, Nate! By the way... I notice a lot of operators sending "E N" when answering a turn over and confirming questions. Is that a new "cool" way to send Roger (R), or have I missed something in the last twenty years or so?
73, Tom Childers Radio Amateur N5GE Licensed since 1976 QCWA Life Member 35102 ARRL Life Member Retired Professional C# Software developer http://www.n5ge.net On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:50:30 -0600, Nate Bargmann <[email protected]> wrote: >* On 2011 22 Jan 08:41 -0600, Jim Wiley wrote: >> This does not mean that learning and using Morse code is being >> discouraged - just the opposite is true. Both the ARRL and the W5YI / >> Gordon West groups reported a while back that sales of code practice >> tapes and other code learning materials are more popular than ever. >> Some observers have reported that on the air code traffic is booming, >> and that it is becoming hard to find a "hole" in which to start a QSO on >> some days. > >That is good news. I know that the Straight Key Century Club (SKCC) is >busy, both on the air and on their mailing list. Membership count is >now near 7600. SKCC maintains 7114 kc as an 'Elmer' frequency. >New/slow ops are encouraged to start there and make QSOs. > >Once I got my head around the fact that Morse exams would be going away, >I began to think that the pessimists who asserted that the use of CW on >the amateur bands would fade away would be proven wrong. It looks like >I am happily correct. > >73, de Nate N0NB >> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
