I have listened to 144.794-144.990MHz Machine Generated Modes (MGM) & Digital Comms, not a peep, in fact 2 meter band seems totally dead. If I thought with a bigger aerial I could get some signal then may be worth while fitting one, but a handy left switched on for a year on call channel I have only heard one guy use it, clearly more elevated to myself, and using a large aerial. He says I may with an large aerial get to Newtown repeater, but only radio I can get is the railway PMR repeater. Even commercial broadcast Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 etc is hard to get.
It's there, I can get it, but such poor quality moved to internet, use Nest Mini now, so if Packet still going maybe I can sell it/give it to some one who can use it. As to Morse, I think the law was reasonable for it's continued use, I know now my GW7 licence allows me to use HF, but for so many years you had to learn Morse to use the HF bands.
Morse is still used to send messages with low power, earth - moon - earth for example.
