Subj : Morse Code
To   : Andy Ball
From : Roy Witt
Date : Thu Sep 07 2000 11:30 am

Hello Andy.

07 Sep 00 16:08, you wrote to me:

RW>> ...it's easy enough for ships at sea to send morse over broken
>> microphones on maritime frequencies as well as those marine
>> channels the CG monitors, if the need should arise..

AB> That's a good point.

RW>> It's one of those things that's decided by the international
>> meetings held about every two years.  I'm thinking IARU, but
>> may be mistaken on that.

AB>     I hadn't realised that it had been decided on an international
AB> level, that's interesting.

I belong to No Code International, a group led by W5YI, dedicated to
lowering if not eliminating the code requirement in Amateur Radio.  There
was an earlier group in New Zealand that brought it to the IARU table a
couple of years before NCI got on the band wagon.


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