>From my viewpoint things really changed on 160 meters in line with the use
of Internet spotting.
I'm not going to say the change is good or bad, just that it has really
changed things. I enjoyed tuning up and down the band for hours on end
with the objective of "the early bird catches the worm", but that has all
changed with Internet spotting. Also the Internet spotting has brought
along some very bad practices and many operator mistakes that impacts us
all.
73,
Don (wd8dsb)
On Friday, January 23, 2015, Tom W8JI <w8ji@w8ji.com> wrote:
> But that would mean it stopped being a gentleman's band when the very
> first radios were manufactured, since the first radios including 160. 160
> disappeared from most (not all) equipment when we lost the band to LORAN
> after WWII, and then slowly reappeared.
>
> Problem people are always a certain part of the general population. 160
> had people jamming DX nightly through the 1970's and 80's as a "hobby" or
> "group sport". It isn't new behavior, and it really is not any worse then
> it ever was, with the exception people might worry less about the FCC any
> more.
>
> But then......we all love deregulation and less Government as a social
> advancement. :)
>
> One of the biggest recent hoots was when a group of AMers called the
> "think tank", whose spokesperson would get in AM vs. SSB fights, petitioned
> the FCC for no restrictions on where AM (or any mode) could operate. The
> ultimate deregulation.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "HAROLD SMITH JR" <
> w0rihps@sbcglobal.net>
> To: "JC" <n4is@comcast.net>; "'topband'" <topband@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 11:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Topband: EP6T and outside world
>
>
> Very well put JC! You hit the nail on the head.
>>
>> 73 de Price W0RI
>>
>>
>> On Friday, January 23, 2015 10:36 AM, JC <n4is@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> 160 stopped becoming the "Gentleman's Band" ever since mainstream
>> manufacturers started incoroporating a spot marked "160" on the front of
>> their rigs & linears...
>> <<<
>>
>>
>> 100% disagree.. 160m is a gentleman's band by choice, all of us can make
>> that choice, we respect the visitors that come and go, we don't blame them
>> we educate them by example.
>>
>> We don't fight the pig because the pig will get you into the mud and he
>> loves it.
>>
>> Gentleman's and gentlewoman's are here to stay!
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> JC
>> N4IS
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