Don and everyone,
Don't forget the ON4KST chat room. I have many Europe Q's for new ones when
the station in Europe would say when they were going to call CQ and where. I
would go and camp on the freq. Yes, the early bird catches the station b4
the East Coast is aware he is on.
73 Hardy N7RT
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From: "Don Kirk" <wd8dsb@gmail.com>
To: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Cc: "JC" <n4is@comcast.net>; "HAROLD SMITH JR" <w0rihps@sbcglobal.net>;
"topband" <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: EP6T and outside world
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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