Got Morse?
Yep and better.
Digital modes... got it, don't use it much, besides CW.
I grew up building homebrew stuff. I'll probably croak out with a half-finished project in a box somewhere.
/johnny
I unjoined myself from ARRL when cw was dropped as a license requirement. Shouldn't be allowed to be a ham without it. It is cw that will get thru in an emergency not voice. Hook a mike up to a spark gap and tell me how it works. So the amateur community has been dumbed down ... Always wondered why... Maybe now I know?
In 2003, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ratified changes to the Radio Regulations to allow each country to determine whether it would require a person seeking an amateur radio operator license to demonstrate the ability to send and receive Morse code. The effect of this revision was to eliminate the international requirement that a person demonstrate Morse code proficiency in order to qualify for an amateur radio operator license with transmitting privileges on frequencies below 30 MHz.[14] With this change of international rules, the FCC announced on December 15, 2006 that it intended to adopt rule changes which would eliminate the Morse code requirement for amateur operator licenses.[14][15] Shortly thereafter, the effective date of the new rules was announced as February 23, 2007. After that date, the FCC immediately granted the former Technician Plus privileges to all Technician Class operators, consolidating the class into a single set of rules.
Notice it was"international" ... Like the UN maybe? Same crowd.