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On Wed, 2/12/14, Peter Laws <plaws@plaws.net> wrote:
"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! I, for one, am not interested
in
being belted *or* flayed. But yes, that would surely be helpful if for
no
other reason than to make sure there is more than one point of view
represented."
Based on my experiences of trying to do just that for more than 10 years
now
on places like eHam is that you will find more than likely to be simply
"unheard" than be criticized for posting information about what we do on
the
"ultra highs". But yes, please do chime in, it gets pretty lonely out
there
trying to offer information to the masses about what we do on these
bands.
There was a recent eHam.net article ("222 MHz the missing Band - Still
Missing") posted by W4KYR asking why after 10 years after someone had
posted
that same question in a previous article that there are still no all
band,
all mode, radios with 222 in them from I, K, Y, or even anyone else. The
responses were interesting. Several of us pointed out that there are a
couple readily available off the shelf transverter options to get going
on
222 SSB/CW. And I further pointed out that for fixed station uses where
portability isn't important transverters are a better way to go anyhow.
That
was basically the exact same comment I made 10 years previously to the
article cited by this most recent one.
Then there were numerous comments that conflated FM only gear
availability
with the topic of the article that was specifically about SSB/CW
capability.
But then also many of the posters to that article were so completely
fixated
on the notion that only legitimate way to get on on a band is to buy it
in a
box from I, K, or Y they simply couldn't (refused to??) comprehend that
there are others ways to get onto 222. There's this really peculiar
perception out there that if it isn't available from I, K, or Y, then it
doesn't exist. And that it won't exist until it can be bought from I, K,
or
Y.. This widely held belief out there in amateur radio land has baffled
me
almost more than the reality of there being 10's of thousands of radios
with
6m, 2m, and 70cm in them already out there in people's hands that never
get
used on those bands and modes.
So I will continue assert that it is not equipment availability, or
availability of information about what we do that is the limiting factor
for
why people don't get on these bands and modes we do, it is something
else.
Duane
N9DG
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