Comment Re:Morse Code (Score 2) 620
Yes, I know about the NAVAIDs, but they identify at 5 WPM and the airman's charts print the dots and dashes next to the waypoint. And there might still be runway aids that say a few letters, also at 5 WPM, but it's always the same letters for left and right and the outer, middle, and inner marker. Pilots learn the sounds for each.
When I was a Technician licensee, all of the repeaters were populated mostly by Technician licensees, and identified much faster than any of them could copy. So it was clear the Morse tone (erroneously called a "CW" ID because it wasn't Constant Wave) was there for a legal requirement only. But most of the repeaters could identify in phone, too. Back in NY, we had WR2ACD identify with the voice of the famous CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite, who was of course KB2GSD.