[SCCC] Looking For Write Ups, Comments, Observations AM to SSB

[Dennis Younker NE6I]

Hi all,

 

The current conversation taking place in Amateur Radio, well, one of them
anyway, is about FT8. Is it fun? Boring? Machine to machine? Going to kill
amateur radio, going to take it over? 

 

All of that said, it has made me wonder if this is similar to the AM to SSB
transition/migration many years ago. I missed that one. SSB was well
entrenched when I was first licensed back in 1972. I'd like to hear from
those of you that WERE there for that transition. What were the comments
from the hams at large? What were the predictions? What did you think about
it? How did it impact contesting back then? Please reply to me privately.
I'd like to engage you in some conversation via email and compose an article
for the SCCC web page. It will be a joint effort with all write ups from all
of you that participate. If you'd like to be anonymous in the article,
that's okay too. Just let me know. 

 

I'm looking forward to this. We may do one later on rigs of the past. Boat
anchors to Collins to Heathkit to Drake to Signal Ones to solid state to
modern rigs that we can barely repair ourselves. That too would be a fun
topic but let's start with AM to SSB. 

 

I am looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks!

 

--Dennis NE6I