One suggestion. We need to be more careful about zero beating each other on the 40m frequency. At times in the QSO, stations are so scattered out over a 1-2 kHz range, that my sync detector won't stay locked when one station turns it over to another. But the real problem is that this frequency scattering is bound to be generating unnecessary hostility from the SSB DX'ers, and will likely to result in deliberate QRM and other hostile actions against the AM'ers. I have already heard the griping, and I'm afraid it's just starting. Last night someone tried to fire his ricebox up on AM, and kept saying (with extreme distortion), "Why are you on AM down here? Go back to 7290".
Remember, we don't own 7160 kHz any more than slopbucketeers own any of "their" frequencies. Because of the limited spread of this "new" phone band, we need to operate more like precision sharpshooters, than users of a sawed-off shotgun in the early evening. With the new situation on 40m, maybe it's time to seriously consider a petition to the FCC to further expand the phone band, down to 7100 or 7075. Much of the foreign DX is below 7125, and US amateurs are about the only ones in the world who are not allowed to operate phone down there (not sure about VK's and ZL's). I hear 7075-7125 filled with a LOT more foreign SSB than CW. Don k4kyv _______________________________________________________________ This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
