Hi, Dave. This is an interesting idea, but it presupposes the new hams are taught traffic handling, ICS training, and other things that makes them able to pass emergency traffic with ANY rig. Maybe we should consider teaching Morse skills as a part of emergency communications. After all, as much as an anathema as it may be to us, not everyone wants to learn emergency operations, just as some do not want to learn CW.
Rick WD8KEL Dave Lowenstein wrote: > The disadvantage of "no-code" is that if new hams aren't required to learn > CW, how are they going to be able handle emergency traffic from our > low-powered battery-operated K1's and K2's? Since emergencies are one of > our reasons for being and CW gets through with simple equipment where other > modes won't, aren't we shooting ourselves in the foot by eliminating the CW > requirement? > > Dave > N7AF _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
