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Re: [Amps] Drivel

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Drivel
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 11:47:45 -0700
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On Sat,4/29/2017 11:09 AM, Mark Bitterlich wrote:
But relying on CW is not going to get you killed.

To evaluate your opinion (and it is nothing but opinion, based on a religious belief in CW), I'd like to know exactly what emergency communications operations you have been a part of in the last ten years, and exactly what your participation entailed. And I'm not asking about drills or training sessions, I'm talking about real emergencies, like tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, explosions, wild-land fires, severe storms, landslides, and earthquakes.

FACT: CW is a great mode, no question about its advantages over voice modes -- IF the operators on both ends are good at it.

FACT: CW is a USELESS mode if there's NOT an operator on BOTH ends who is good at it.

OPINION: The chances of there being an operator on an FM repeater who can copy CW are pretty slim. When I'm using VHF/UHF FM, I'm usually the only one.

OPINION: The chances of SSB ragchewers being competent in CW gets increasingly slim as the ham population ages. And most SSB ragchewers are there because they DON'T work cw.

73, Jim K9YC

Founding member CWOPS, #69

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