As far as I can tell, Morse is entirely a hobby now. Maritime radio stopped monitoring Morse on 12 July 1999. I did some searches and I don’t think the US military offers a Morse skill rating now.
You can make a living blacksmithing, but not with Morse code. This takes nothing away from Morse as a hobby. Or from blacksmithing — my father was an amateur blacksmith. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Mar 29, 2016, at 5:34 PM, lstavenhagen <lstavenha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > So... this may be too far OT and forgive me for being ignorant, but I'm > genuinely curious. Is Morse used at all anymore in any commercial or > military enterprises? Or is amateur radio "it" for CW these days? I honestly > don't know if we're the only ones left using it on planet Earth or not.... > > LS > W5QD > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/OT-Decoding-high-speed-CW-tp7615612p7615703.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wun...@wunderwood.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
