typical appliance operator, plug it in and talk, ham radio is about teaching old and new ways, i guess building radios should be outlawed next
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Clay Curtiss W7CE Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AMRadio] ARRL bandwidth petition draws anti-AM'ers out ofthewoodwork. > AM is no different from > this. It is an old modulation that adds nothing to advancing the > technological art, and should be > confined to bands where there is ample spectrum available. > > Richard L. Tannehill P.E. - W7RT Based on his argument, CW, SSB, FM and RTTY should be eliminated also. All are VERY old technologies that could be replaced with high tech digital modes. There's room in ham radio for all of our sub-hobbies. I wish everyone would quit acting like their particulat interests are the only valid parts of the hobby. Personally, I like operating vintage equipment on AM, chasing DX especially on 80M and 6M, and designing antennas. I haven't ever used any of the digital modes which is kind of ironic since I am an Electrical Engineer and design digital ICs for a living (including some digital modulation systems that use DSP). I plan to start building on EME station so I may go digital to work stations below the noise. Somehow I don't think that will be as satisfying as hearing my own CW echo off the moon though. I like to see most HF bands segmented into three regions: 1. CW only (probably about 50-75 kHz per band 2. Digital modes only (another 50-75 kHz per band) 3. Phone only (SSB, AM, Hi-Fi SSB, FM, and whatever else) on the rest of the band Each region would be exclusive for the specified modes. This would cut down on cross-mode QRM in general and especially during contests. While not specified above, a small segment of each band reserved exclusively for legacy modes (like AM) would be nice. I suspect that this plan is way too simple for most, but it seems like it would work and it's not that big of change from the way the HF bands are used today. 73, Clay W7CE ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb
