Subj : Morse test, to be or not to be?
To : Michiel Van Der Vlist
From : Richard Town
Date : Sat Jul 07 2001 09:20 am
-=> Quoting Michiel van der Vlist to Richard Town <=-
> MvdV> All other services have stopped using morse. The military,
> MvdV> aviation and marine services, none of them uses morse any more.
> MIL still teaches morse as a backup. I'm (painfully)
> reminded of the call made on reservists during the Gulf war.
MvdV> They may have used it in the Gulf war. Note that that already is a
MvdV> decade into the past...
You'll just have to accept that it is used for reasons of it's virtual
impossibility to intercept especially if used with Picolo
MvdV> The Dutch military have stopped using (and teaching) it some time ago.
Overtly
MvdV> The official point of view of the RDR (the Dutch equivalent of the
MvdV> FCC) is that there is no compelling reason to maintain the morse test
MvdV> as part of the exam since their are no other services left that use
MvdV> morse.
Except between persons of course...
MvdV> I gather many governments have taken a similar stance by now.
Many governments have a vested interest in channelling all personal comms
via interceptable routes
Richard
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