Thanks for the info, Jim. I have a "No Clue Tech" license and some
two-meter band radios. I'd thought about expanding my horizons but had
no desire to learn code.

Got kind of semi-learned in it several decades ago. IIRC, it was
because we had to learn how to use Consolan (sic, I can't remember how
to spell it) and it required knowing code. We never used it because
none of the airplanes I flew had the equipment, and it was being phased
out anyway. It was LORAN, and that old standby, celestial navigation,
followed by a really good DR position.

I need to start getting involved with the local ham radio club. Haven't
done that yet.

--Walt


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.)