I've had a ham license since about 1985, Extra since about 1987. I
tried, I really did, to get interested in CW. I tried my damnest to get
some countries on CW. Just gave up. I have about 185 with voice but
the code was a dinosaur in the 80's, now the whole thing is laughable.
I have a two meter rig here at the computer and an antenna on the roof
but zero interest in it since the late 80's. I use the radio to listen
to the airplanes since it has AM in it. Maybe one of these days.....




RST Engineering wrote:
I think most of you know that I've been operating aircraft ham radio mobile
since the days of dynamotors and vacuum tubes (yes, I put a Heathkit "Twoer"
in the Cessna 120 using a surplus wwii dynamotor back in 1968).

For those of you who have been sorta thinking that some day it would be nice
to have a ham rig in the airplane, for emergency if nothing else, but that
the morse code requirement kept you away, the FCC just did away with the
morse code for all license classes. Read about it he

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/12/15/104/?nc=1


No more excuses for not having that ticket now, is there?

{;-)


Jim

(Of course, for those of us who thought that the code was long since
anachronistic, it is sort of like the FAA dropping the requirement to know
how to manipulate the manual spark advance on the magneto.)