Evidently it is true. This showed up later after I posted the other one. 73 Jim de W5JO
In Reply to: Bandwidth issue posted by Riley Hollingsworth on February 14, 19103 at 11:06:23: : Hi folks. At Richmond the comments about bandwidth had NOTHING whatsoever to do with AM. I was referring to enhancing SSB,especially with rig mods, to make it incredibly wide. AM is AM, and you folks experiment and do great things and just enjoy the technical part of the hobby---there are no complaints that I know if about your bandwidth, except from people who don't want to see anyone else enjoying anything. The complaints we are getting relate to SSB operators (only) on crowded spectrun deliberately making the SSB signal abnormally wide, sometimes to force themselves in. We have nothing against AM, in fact I just got my Valiant completely restored and painted a few weeks ago and plan to use it on AM. Well, I guess I have one personal problem with AM--I can't get a word in edgewise and if I miss a pause in the QSO I have to wait another half-hour!! But that's good I guess-- I sure am learning a lot by listening. The fruitcakes on 20 meters should do that. Just in case anyone is wondering, Riley just sent me a followup on this post and this is indeed right from the horse's mouth. And I explained to him about the Old Buzzard phenomenon and he now understands. :-) And, yes, he does indeed operate AM, and I wouldn't be surprised to see him doing more of it. :-) 73, Ed Hare, W1RFI
