Topband: Top band Civil war of the 1960s and 70s.

[W0UCE]

Seems to me ARRL and CW today are like "oil and water" they don't mix
well.  What a shame. 



Jack WØUCE
www.wØuce.net


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From: topband-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of JAMESAMS88 at aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 8:28 PM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: Top band Civil war of the 1960s and 70s.

I bet many of you old time top band operators, like Herb, Tom, Barry and

others remember the problems we use to have trying to keep the DX window
clear of 
the phone stations. One station in the Midwest said he had just as much
a 
right to operate SSB in the window as anyone, and he was right of
course. There 
was several others that thought the same, they forgot I guess that top
band was 
a gentleman's band and we all should try to get along. It almost became
a war 
between the DXers and the SSB ragchewers. As I remember it got really
bad at 
times with swearing, name calling and deliberate QRM. It was really sad.
I do 
hope our latest escapade does not develop into a war like we had back
then.  We 
should try to get across to the ARRL to treat 160 like any other band
and 
separate the CW from the phone. I would hope the ARRL would pressure the
FCC to 
do this.   Jim Graham  WØNFL
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