> There are ... no professional CW operators. The FCC still issues *commercial* radiotelegraph licenses.
The commercial First Class and the Second Class radiotelegraph licenses still existed until just TEN MONTHS ago. Then the First Class license was eliminated and the Second Class license was renamed the "Radiotelegraph Operator License" (no class shown). There are many professional Morse operators still among us, like my fiend Al/W5KGM who served as an airline Morse operator and as a merchant marine radio officer on WWII Atlantic convoys. Use of any "digi" mode requires less operator skill than does Morse. That explains at least some of the popularity. As an earlier post stated...it all looks like e-mail to me. Mike / KK5F ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
