Subj : Morse test, to be or not to be?
To   : Michiel Van Der Vlist
From : Richard Town
Date : Sat Jul 07 2001 09:20 am

 -=> Quoting Michiel van der Vlist to Richard Town <=-

 >  MvdV> All other services have stopped using morse. The military,
 >  MvdV> aviation and marine services, none of them uses morse any more.
 > MIL still teaches morse as a backup. I'm (painfully)
 > reminded of the call made on reservists during the Gulf war.
 MvdV> They may have used it in the Gulf war. Note that that already is a
 MvdV> decade into the past...

You'll just have to accept that it is used for reasons of it's virtual
impossibility to intercept especially if used with Picolo

 MvdV> The Dutch military have stopped using (and teaching) it some time ago.

Overtly

 MvdV> The official point of view of the RDR (the Dutch equivalent of the
 MvdV> FCC) is that there is no compelling reason to maintain the morse test
 MvdV> as part of the exam since their are no other services left that use
 MvdV> morse.

Except between persons of course...

 MvdV> I gather many governments have taken a similar stance by now.

Many governments have a vested interest in channelling all personal comms
via interceptable routes

Richard

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