[RTTY] PSK Article in QST

[Anthony W. DePrato]

At 12:40 PM 2/20/2008, Art Searle W2NRA wrote:
>While were on the subject of QST articles.  Did everyone read the article on
>PropNET by WB8IMY in his Eclectic Technology.  It is a positive article on
>PropNET calling the transmissions  either Beacons or Reporting stations.
>WB8IMY give this  . . . thing . . . QRMing garbage . .  a high
>recommendation and encourages everyone to join in.   You all need to read
>this article and respond to it.
>
>73 Art W2NRA
>Hi ART yes i read it shaking my head in amazement i use to have some 
>respect for steve but as the years pasted i realized he was lost in 
>the warped minds of the arrl. i could not beleive that Steve wrote 
>such garbage . the FCC is looking into this propnet crap now. only 
>one group is allowed beacons below VHF and yes 28mhz is a VHF band 
>so forget that band. the 20 mts beacons have FCC approval. the 
>propnet guys DO NOT. as for a 10,139 freq as the net freq that is 
>way off i have had them qrm me at 10,146mhz now how does that put 
>them on the beacon freq as they call it. propnet is nothing but a 
>bunch of unattended stations of guys who do not what to get on the 
>air and operate but want to come in the shack every day or two and 
>see who their radios talked to while they were away. i for one hope 
>the FCC shuts this mess down ASAP.
i have been playing with psk since day one off and on. here as of 
late i wanted to see what  30 mts was doing late at night and dropped 
down from cw to psk lots of stns on the air and some good dx vk zl 
late at night but RTTY is the mode i still list as #1
was on last week working a zl on psk and this N0*** propnet  stn came 
right on top on 10,146 and qrmed us a couple of times during our qso. 
guess ill go back to cw and rtty.
73 Tony




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