Subj : Morse Code
To   : Andy Ball
From : Roy Witt
Date : Tue Sep 05 2000 11:56 am

Hello Andy.

05 Sep 00 16:04, you wrote to me:

 >> job with the CG was as a radio station manager on our
 >> Point Loma CG radio station here in San Diego.

 AB>     Well, he certainly ought to know! =o)  I can understand
 AB> the logic behind switching to a (computer) digital system for
 AB> day-to-day use, but I hope they still monitor for Morse distress
 AB> signals if nothing else.

I don't know that they do, but it's easy enough for ships at sea to send
morse over broken microphones on maritime frequencies as well as those
marine channels the CG monitors, if the need should arise..

 RW>> As you know, the requirements are being phased out in
 >> the FCC testing.

 AB>     Things certainly point that way (5 WPM and all that).
 AB> Have the FCC said that they will eventually eliminate the
 AB> requirement?

It's one of those things that's decided by the international meetings held
about every two years.  I'm thinking IARU, but may be mistaken on that.
The subject keeps poping up at these meetings and world-wide, morse code
is being eliminated from government and military radio, and only has a
following in Amateur Radio anymore.


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