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FCC Proposes Abolishing Morse Code Requirement
TaxSlave writes "According to this ARRL article, the Federal Communications Commission has finally decided which path it wants to take with the Morse Code requirement for an amateur radio license. International requirements for Morse Code were done away with some time back, and several countries quickly abolished the requirement. Now, the FCC has proposed doing the same thing. Next step, months of comments, discussion, and navel-gazing."
So how are we going to tell all the other countries how to bring down the alien flying saucers?
morning DJs can ONLY transmit in morse code...
It'd probably at least be funnier that way...
dot dot dash dot dot dot dot dash dot dot dot dot / dot dash dash dot dash dash dash dot dot dot dash
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
What horrible timing! They dishonor the memory of James Doohan! (Search for "morse" if you've forgotten the scene.)
That Morse Code requirement always sounded like tit for tat to me.
bash$
Blasphemy I say... ... oops, I mean:
(Dots and dashes spelling: b l a s p h e m y fullstop)
I wish I could have posted it but I got this message from Slashdot when I submitted the post:
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Well Fuck you slashdot and your anti-morse code agenda!
dashdashdash dotdotdotdot dashdot dashdashdash dot dotdotdot!!!!!!11!!1one
dot dot dash dot dot dot dot dash dash dot dot dot dash dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dot dash dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash
and I am sure you all agree with me on that!
[w/ apologies to Kenny on South Park. ]
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
I thought we were going to just shut down ham radio altogether so we can all have powerline broadband??? what the heck is this?
-Lod
You notice that the morse story was posted right after the Patriot Act one? Well, there's a reason. The NSA can't find its friggin' Boy Scout's handbook on morse code, so can't afford to let anyone use it any more.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Thanks for the link. The original site got DashDotted. ;)
How do you account for the space between words then if it's digital? Surely it's ternary - silence, dot, dah...
ternary? ternary? I missed the part where he called it binary communications instead of digital communications.
In other news, spur's no longer required equipment to get a drivers license.
Hello, Hello, the 1800s are calling and they want their communication method back.
Dah dah dit / dah dah dah / dah dah dah / da di dit.
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My instructor told me, "When you use the VOR, think of TITS" (acronym for Tune, Identify, Test, Set). I said, "If I'm thinking of tits, how am I supposed to fly the airplane?"
I must say, quite off-topicly (that's a word now, because I said so), that I visited an FCC office the other day, and the navels do look very nice. Well-kept. Not a piece of lint in the building. It's really no wonder that they do so much navel gazing. If I had one like theirs, I'd have a hard time taking my eyes off it.
What is the point of amateur radio when the Internet has connected most of the globe?
:-)
What is the point of Linux, when Windows does everything anyone would want and you don't have to compile a kernel or use a command line?
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