That's pretty much what I thought, although I'm not sure the 'Good Old Boys' attitude is completely gone. I was reading a pro-ESSB guy's rant a few days ago online and the GOB's resistance to it's acceptance.vk6hgr wrote:It should always have been optional. IMHO, Morse was used as nothing more than an artificial entry barrier to prevent certain people from entering the "good old boys" hobby. Fortunately, that attitude is long gone.
My father and I learnt morse out of class from an old timer who lived down the road. He was a signal operator in the German army during WWII. Of a class of a dozen or so, we were the only ones to get our NAOCP. The rest failed the morse
(It's also how we found out what ———— is)