Re: [TenTec] New hams (doesn't matter what generation)

["DC" <daclark56@hotmail.com>]

Mr Castro seems determined that I continue to get the Ten Tec reflector even 
though I have continually requested it be stopped.  Does anyone have any 
suggestions to "UNSUBSCRIBE" ?  I get way to many messages to read even 
though they should be batched.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
To: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
Cc: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New hams (doesn't matter what generation)


> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:15:57PM -1000, Ken Brown wrote:
> > it may as well have the 2.8 kHz for SSB and CW both. Those who have the
> > initiative to try CW will be able to make plenty of QSOs with a 2.8 kHz
> > filter.
> Actually they can't. I am a special case, I can't copy cw with a second
> signal, whether it's cw, voice or music as in the opening of the
> the TV show Jericho. I can however, copy 35wpm from signals most
> people can't even hear, burried in the noise.
>
> Most of the people I know can't seperate musical notes, sounds or
> cw signals. That's why they went into computers.
>
>
> > I'm saying you don't have to add a filter to give the rig CW capability.
> > You were claiming that the absolute necessity of a narrow filter for a
> > new ham to operate CW, along with other complexities of CW transmitting
> > would make the rig too expensive, and it should therefore not have CW
> > capability.
> Sort of. I'm not saying that it should not be able to have CW capability
> added, in fact, I would insist on it if I were designing it. What I am
> saying is that it should not have it included to both lower the price,
> even if it were a few dollars retail, and to add the perception that
> it's not being paid for when it is not wanted.
>
>
>
>
> > Not many VHF/UHF rigs have been sold with SSB capability either, except
> > those that also had HF capability. Come to think of it, SSB being so
> > difficult for a beginner to tune, why not just go FM on the HF bands to
> > make it even more effortless for these lazy new generation hams to use
> > HF? We could save a few bucks using a FM discriminator and no BFO. Much
> > simpler transmit circuitry with FM too. Divide the HF bands up into
> > channels, as you suggested earlier.
> If you have never worked HF FM, IMHO you are missing a treat. When the
> band is open, you can talk to people hundreds if not thousands of miles
> away, with no noise and clear audio. It's also an amazing way of 
> introducing
> HF to hams whose only radio is a 2m HT.
>
>
>
> > Got a copy good buddy? I can turn on my foot warmer, and it doesn't
> > even need to be leenyur, cuz we're ratchet jawin' in FM. Ten Four?
> That's just being silly :-)
>
> Geoff.
> --
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm@mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM
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