Wow nice figures,, where do I sign up? :)
Sherrill WATKINS wrote:
> Mark: If I am not mistaken, morse code is still in use, commercially, in the
> eastern hemisphere. It was dropped in the western hemisphere because the
> labor unions forced the cost of a cw radio operator so high that other
> technology took over. In the eastern hemisphere, where there are no labor
> unions, there are ships that still use a cw radio operator and will continue
> to do so. The last cost figures I heard to keep one cw radio operator on a
> ship at union rates were about $300,000 per year. This was for two people,
> each working six months shifts. Each person being paid $150,000 per year. It
> took the legal resourses of Exxon Company and a few others and the advances
> in satellite technology to get the law changed to eliminate the clout of the
> cw radio operator unions! - sherrill k4own.
>
> >>> "Mark Erbaugh" <mark@microenh.com> 10/19/00 08:56AM >>>
>
> In this week's episode of Star Trek: Voyager, Morse code was used to send a
> brief message when all other com systems were unavailable. We only get to
> hear about 4 characters, the rest are translated for us.
>
> 73,
> Mark
>
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