On 5/1/07, Brett gazdzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not to put it down, I could have fun on ssb if there was someone interesting to talk to on it, and maybe there is, but not on 80 at night I guess. Its efficient, but I have NO sense of pitch, and can not tune the stuff in, it always sounds 'off'...
I think the pitch thing is more related to the lack of available audio more than anything. Even when you tune it in 'right', it still sounds thin and crappy. The wideband SSB sounds a bit better as far as lows go, but really not enough to justify the space used. They'd be better off using AM, the results would be better for the amount of spectrum utilized. To each his own. 80 isn't bad really, 75 always seems to have a some garbage tha isn't mode-specific during the evening hours. Later at night the ghetto seems to quiet down as the antics and jamming subside. My guess is that a lot of the SSB ops on 80 haven't been exposed to the nonsense from 75 since many of them either make cross mode contacts with AMers or switch their rigs over and try out AM. I agree Pete, that SSB is the better bet for weak signal and DX work for the most part. But again - you do have the ones who have to work a station regardless and will run huge power and step on every other station to do so. The typical ego issues we tend to associate with the corntesters. They give DXers a black eye just as the idiots ops give other modes a bad name. OTOH, working Steve in Tum Tum, Washington and Mike 'No Money' in California was a real blast for me. AM DX, more or less, considering the difficulty associated with AM and distance. Both accomplished late at night in the AM ghetto after the troublemakers and jammers had gone to bed. I don't mind SSB, I just prefer AM for the limited radio time currently available to me. Bad apples aren't mode-specific, there just seem to be fewer using AM. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
