I guess some don't want kids to memorize multiplication tables, either.
After all, we use calculators in the real world, right? Ever go to a
convenience store and get a strange look from the clerk when you hand
over a TEN a ONE and a PENNY for a $6.01 charge. Too bad they can't add
either.
IMO, CW is fun.
Mike N2MG
> -----Original Message-----
> From: T A RUSSELL [SMTP:n4kg@juno.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 10:07 AM
> To: AMPS@contesting.com; andywallace@home.com
> Subject: Re: [AMPS] ARRL and QST (and CW Relevance)
>
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:05:38 -0600 Andy Wallace <andywallace@home.com>
> writes:
> >
> >More third grade style strawman arguments--nobody suggested
> >making the written exams easier--lets make them HARDER
> but dealing with relevant information.
> >
> >Andy K5VM
> >
>
> A nice sounding SIMPLISTIC PLATITUDE, BUT,
>
> RELEVANT to WHO?
>
> Who decides WHAT is relevant?
>
> What really is relevant?
>
> CW was deemed RELEVANT by International Agreement
> so that anyone using a radio would be able to recognize
> a DISTRESS call. Remember the TITANIC?
>
> CW truly is the INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE.
>
> Someone trained in CW can recognize a distress call
> even though he cannot understand a word of English.
> Using Q-signals (such as QTH) relevant INFORMATION
> can be passed between people who have NO common language
> other than CW.
>
> THAT is the RELEVANCE of CW.
>
> I don't buy the feeble excuse that someone can't learn the code.
> There may be a miniscule number of exceptions, but MOST
> peoply who cry they can't learn the code simply aren't willing
> to put forth the time and effort to do so. IMHO, If you are too
> lazy to learn the code, you shouldn't play the game.
>
> On the technical side, CW is capable of producing the
> highest Signal to Noise ratio because it has the narrowest
> Bandwidth of all modulation systems. That alone keeps it
> "relevant" as a viable means of communication under
> adverse conditions.
>
> de Tom N4KG
>
>
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