Morse Code hits the news

It seems the Morse Code debate has hit the mainstream media.

Daily Democrat, Woodland, California

Minnesota Public Radio

PR Newswire

engaget.com

Reuters

New York Times

Washington Post

Daily India

Star News, Wilmington, DE

International Herald Tribune 

Slashdot

Detroit News, Detroit, Michigan

Technocrat.net
And those are ones that I was able to easily find.

… and have any of them taken a byline from Hamsexy.com? No!

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9 Responses to Morse Code hits the news

  1. KB3JUV says:

    You mean Wilmington, NC not Wilmington, DE

  2. k2thz says:

    “…a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have provided a communications lifeline in emergencies and disasters…But that community has been shaken by news that the government will no longer require…”
    (NC Star News story, emphasis mine)

    Yeah, because the last time you saw a providing “vibrant” emergency communications while dangling from a helicopter rescue line, he was tapping out C-dub on a thigh paddle hooked to his 2M HT… (Or maybe that rescue line was actually an HF antenna, hanging from his 20-meter QRP rig inside the chopper…)

  3. k2thz says:

    “While the decision had been expected, some ham radio operators fear that their exclusive club has been opened to the unwashed masses…”
    (NC Star new story, emphasis mine)

    OMG don’t even get us started…

  4. kc9iiz says:

    Well it’s not often you see vibrant community and unwashed masses in the same story…………. Oh, that’s right, HAM radio…… Yeah sorry, I just went somewhere else for a moment. Sudden flash back to the last HAM fest beenie baby sale I went to.

  5. cyclops111670 says:

    The handwringing by the OFs and the We-Told-You-So celebratory attitude of the No-Coders is sucking the fun of the hobby.

    I’m really wondering why I should keep my license after 12 years…this is bullshit.

  6. w8juz says:

    you may not want to open that can of worms!

  7. ku4my says:

    “While the decision had been expected, some ham radio operators fear that their exclusive club has been opened to the unwashed masses…”
    (NC Star new story, emphasis mine)

    Hell, I thought WE were the unwashed masses?!

  8. va3igd says:

    I have been to several “Hamfests”, both in Canadia and the USA and I don’t think anyone has to worry about the “unwashed masses”.
    I have found several amateurs in need of a good cleaning and I certainly don’t like being down wind of many of them.
    There may actually be more “unwashed” in the amateur community than in the general public, on a per capita basis, and they have more to fear in the unwashed area than the other way around.
    FTC!

  9. kc2jns says:

    What’s that smell?

    Oh, it’s just us, the unwashed masses…

    Did you all ever think there would be this much buzz (http://technorati.com/search/morse+code) in the blogosphere about ham radio?

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