Topband: EP6T and outside world

[Hardy Landskov]

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Kirk" <wd8dsb at gmail.com>
To: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji at w8ji.com>
Cc: "JC" <n4is at comcast.net>; "HAROLD SMITH JR" <w0rihps at sbcglobal.net>; 
"topband" <topband at 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 at 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 at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "JC" <n4is at comcast.net>; "'topband'" <topband at 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 at 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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