On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:17:07 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote in
:

... 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

....
(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.)

Interesting enough, the Army's first aviation transmitter (c. WW-I)
contained no vacuum tubes, and only permitted Morse code transmission:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...3739&rd=1&rd=1

The aircraft was used as an artillery spotter, who would tap out the
locations of enemy guns to an SCR-54-A crystal receiver on the ground.
The person on the ground communicated with the aircraft with flags.

http://www.stonevintageradio.com/des...68.108.25 1.9