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Date Posted: Sat 11 Feb 2006; 6:54pm
Author: Steve
Subject: Morse requirement and ship in distress example

I agree we don't need morse anymore as a requirement. The example you have on the site, though, of a ship going down and an amateur not able to respond because he does not have privileges below 50 MHz is not correct. FCC rules allow an amateur to do anything he needs to to help in an emergency as you described. So, a no code ham could transmit on HF to communicate with the guy in distress and be within the rules. The bigger issue for me is that with more hams on the radio without morse code it is more likely there will be someone there listening in the first place.

Steve kd4ttc
sholland at napervillegi dot com

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