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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info ("Michael K Johnson") wrote:
@housepanther @bolderbekah @catsalad @ai6yr I failed to learn Morse forty years or so ago, and gave up my dream of ham radio.
I became a ham at all (and a "no-code Extra" at that) only because the requirement was dropped.
Now I'm loving learning Morse, just because. I would absolutely never have done that with the stick approach, only the carrot would ever have worked. And I have heard that the numbers back that experience up — that CW is getting a lot more actual use on the air now that it is optional.
This isn't pressure to learn it. This hobby is full of rabbit holes and there are lots of right ways to do it. If this were pressure that anyone reading this should learn code after all, that would miss the point completely. Instead, I can celebrate learning morse for fun, and others can celebrate their favorite modes, and this is awesome.
The haters are wrong, and probably just jealous and angry.