system: You are Don Blevins, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Amateur Radio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ivy Iverson about "Morse...deleted???".

They wrote:
-> -=> On 03-04-98  23:31, Don Blevins said to Joe Delahaye,<=-
-> -=>"About Morse...deleted???...,"<=-
->
-> Hi, Don;
->
-> [Megaship]
->
->  -> So don't think all new hams will not be interested in CW - at least
->  -> who are doing the course at the same time as myself are keen to learn
->  -> morse as soon afterwards.
->
->  -> Never said that all new hams thought that way.  <G>
->
->  DB> ...In the far distant lands of the great white north
->  DB> and the world for that matter CW is better than voice and much more
->  DB> efficent than anything...let me repeat that...ANYTHING any of you who
->  DB> wish to debate this subject are aware of...first and foremost...Morse
->  DB> code or CW as we tend to know it *>WILL<* punch through to more
->  DB> places more clearly than voice will ever and I do mean ever
->
-> Correct!  One reason is is all on one frequency, (well, a bandwidth of
-> only a few Hertz), rather than spread out over several hundred Hz, (like
-> packet or RTTY), or several KHz like ALL of the voice modes!  This means
-> that ALL the transmitter power is consentrated in one place.  This in
-> itself makes it harder to lose in the moise or interfering signals.
-> Also, you can put a dozen or more CW signals in the same space as a
-> single voice signal without interference!
->
->  DB> ...AND may I
->  DB> add...under most atmospheric conditions...it will get out to the
->  DB> receiver(s) better than anything else we have available to those of
->  DB> who practice this "art" form...
->
-> Correct!  And I would imagine that when the Northern Lights are overhead,
-> when the telephone circuits - and even the power grid - become
-> inoperative in those Northern latitudes, that if you can't get through
-> with CW, you won't get through with ANYTHING!  (I do know that most if
-> not all radio links become unusable under those conditions!)
->
->  DB> geezzz....come on folks...HAM and other
->  DB> forms of communications were around before any of you ever got out of
->  DB> diapers let alone a gleam in your daddys' eyes....
->
-> Yep!  It was the FIRST mode of radiocommunication ever used, and even
-> into the early 20th century, ALL Ham communication was using Morse Code
-> and a rotary spark gap... In person the darned things sounded like a
-> sawmill and on the air they didn't sound much different.  But they got
-> the message through!
->
->  DB> gimme a break...and
->  DB> yourselves...if it wasn't for the challenges that CW and HAM offered
->  DB> to most of us the airwaves would be dead....and by the way...we up in
->  DB> Alaska and other remote areas have a better time of sending and
->  DB> receiving CW than anything else...especially when nothing else is
->  DB> moving at or around -30 below....and phones don't cut it....neither
->  DB> does HF or EHF...
->
-> Right... Up there in the frozen land.
->
->  DB> ...so when you "kids" get doen fighting...put the energy
->  DB> you have on this into doing the work and getting good at it..as in
->  DB> good... now will shut up about this???geezzz...
->
-> Thank you!
->
-> 73 DE KB9QPM
->    Ivy
->
->
->
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        WELL HELLO THEREIVY IVERSON!!!!!,,,I have seen your name around
and heard your qsl's from time to time..doubt that you've heard of mine
as I tend to make it brief and to the point...I do so enjoy being backed
up by folks like yourself that *>KNOW<* the meaning of the term CW is
boss!!!...Do the echo a favor and if any onetends to reject any of the
facts that were presented therre steer them that way or point them
towards north of 60 deg....as to the fact that when the northern lights
are running the power grid and other forms of communications are out
...boy! you hit that one dead on the head...nothing and I do mean
nothing moves when that much magnetic interference is moving
around...and when all I get is either white noise or no noise at all
then you know you have a "small" problem...hehehehehe...nuthin a little
waiting can't cure....!
        If there has ever been a case for one person making a case for
something and being supported by others...you made my day...
73's!!!
N7WQL1