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>  Say, why do people use morse nowadays anyway?


   1)  Because it allows the ability to send/receive intelligence
       from almost anywhere to almost anywhere with a minimum of 
       equipment.  Never know when you might need to do just that.
       Back when the students were protesting in China, some of the 
       only *real* inside information to get out of the country 
       was done with simple (below 30 mHz) Morse equipment.


   2)  Morse is *fun*.  folks who have never sat up all night long 
       pounding the key on a flea power rig have trouble with this
       one.  (just ask mah XYL er, uh, wife....   :-)  )


   3)  Simplicity has many virtues, one of them being low cost.  
       I for one would never have learned much about radio electronics
       in my youth if Amateur Radio gear cost then (late '50s, early
       '60s) what it does today.  There's so much knowledge gained in 
       "rolling your own" equipment.  Code is cheap.  Code is cool.


--mack


Disclaimer:  Claim 'er?  I don't even *know* 'er!



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Clark (Mack) McDonald                 ARPA:  mack@frc.ri.cmu.edu
Field Robotics Center
Carnegie Mellon University                (412) 268-6555
Pittsburgh, PA 15213