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Old November 13th 04, 05:16 PM
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:19:04 GMT, David Reinhart
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Dave, WA6ILT (since 1969)

Of course, these days there's no guarantee that a ham knows Morse code.

I always tell an instructor or examiner I flying with that I know the code so he or she
won't ding me for not double checking the ID on the chart after I tune it in.


kontiki wrote:

Just curious how many of us are out there?

One nice thing for me is that its so nice to be able to Ident an ILS/LOM/VOR or NDB
without having to decode the dits and dahs. )

Scott
K2ST
N6482P


It really upset my PPL instructor when I refused to write the code
down. He couldn't accept it meant nothing trying to count dots and
dashes. Much easier to understand the tones!

GM3RFA