Well, I also sort of regret dropping the 'B' in my call I got in 1969 to shoot
for a plain W4. Mainly because they keep jacking the vanity fee around.
Shoot, even if I went back to that 'B', it would still be a vanity call.
But...just like California has only 2 seasons, wild fires or mud slides, this
discussion about how it was done in the 'old days' has and will always go on in
hamdom, just like it goes on in every specialty hobby or occupation. I'm sure
the the CNC machine operator has to take it on the chin from the machinist who
new how to turn a complex shape manually and had all the formulas and numbers
in his head.
I think the sheer numbers of hams on phone and the reduced requirements have
all contributed to the lack of civility we hear and in the numbers too. I
remember the first time I got on 20 meters, with AM from a DX60, a newly minted
General Class, in 1969, and actually worked someone. His main concern was to
tell me my carrier wasn't nulled out completely, I might want to adjust it.
After I told him what the TX was and I was running AM, he said I was a brave
soul to be on 20.
When it comes to QRM, as has been the custom all along, you just ignore the
abuse and it will eventually give up and move up or down the band. You just
have to be patient and calm, they are always spoiling for a fight it seems. I
don't know what you do about the ham who uses the 10 code or other citizen band
lingo, other than to ask for a repeat in plain English. But even the ham ads
call their fixed station equipment 'base station', and occasionally use other
descriptors right from the 11 meter group.
Charlie W4MEC in NC
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