I don't know. How could such riff-raff sneak in and get voice priv's on HF? Hmm.. OK don't get mad, just kidding!!
With a guy like that, who has invested alot of money in a plastic riceburner, and thinks he has got some real fine radio, you just can't argue with them. After all, you are running a piece of junk, in his mind. Those of us with some experience know why the RF preamplifiers are either tuned, built to withstand high signal levels, or have preselectors in 'good' radios. We understand what happens when a manufacturer plops a mixer right after a 20dB wideband RF preamp, and operates the thing off of 5 volts. Your neighbor just dropped his $1k into the salesman's pocket, and thinks that got him a good receiver. I bet if you cranked up the SSB, he'd still rant about it. for receiving: (my) selective radios: Racal RA-6217E (preselector) AN/GRC-106 (RF amps tuned) Hallicrafters SX-28 (RF amps tuned)) R-392 (RF amps tuned) Sunair GSB-900DX (? but does not overload easily) (my) unselective radios: radio shack DX-392 (awful overload) Kenwood R-1000 (I hate to say it, but it's only 'fair') various CB radios The jury is still out on the Alinco DX-70, but I suspect it would behave like your bad neighbor's set. PJ Re: am bandwidth threatened by the fcc (humor) To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] This reminds me of when I lived at another QTH (about 1984) and a fellow ham lived about 2 houses away in a residential neighborhood. I ran AM on 3880 with a GK-500B, SP-600, and he ran SSB on 3910 with a rice box. When he was on the air, my SP-600 would de-sense a bit, but it was tolerable. When I keyed up the 500B, his receiver went into overload (no front end selectivity), and it didn't matter where his dial was set as I was there loud, and distorted. My "perceived" bandwith was dc to light. The guy was a hot head, and after a brief visit I realized that there was no solution in the midst of threats, and prejudices. I on occasion would listen on 3910 after one of my "old buzzard" transmission (3880) from my 500B, and you would't believe the language I heard about me, and AM in particular. There was no reasoning with him. I wonder if the guy who wrote that anomalous email is my old neighbor? Regards, Jim candela WD5JKO
