Bob, Nice comments.? I'm finishing up restoration of a Collins 32V-2 and hope to have it in the shack soon.? Will be looking for you.? I'm south of you in Palm Coast, so maybe we'll hear each other.
73 Chuck W4MIL -----Original Message----- From: Bob Carpenter <[email protected]> To: 'Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service' <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:31 am Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Is the novelty of the "new" 40m bandwearing offalready? Al, Thanks for your comments regarding "all" hams. I didn't meant to get a small fire going the other day when I made my comments regarding the "extra" waiting at 7160 with nothing going on down there. I've been on this list for some time, and with the recent changes in the B'cast stations on 40 all you would see were comment about the "old a.m. freq of 7160 and let's all hit it and get going with A.M. again. Well looking at the March issue of QST page 59 shows that there are 207,000 general and advance licensees, and 115,500 Extra's. One would think that we all would not want to leave out the 207,000 general/advances potential a.m. op's in our conversation. I've made comments about this in the past and received the comment about up grading. Now I understand that in these "new day's" when it's NOT Fair to keep someone from doing what they want and in time the FCC will issue tickets like a fishing lic. It's still not there yet. I plan to up grade in time, Sorry for my run on mouth here. I'll be on 40 tonight running all the power I can ( 100-120watt a.m.) calling c.q. 7190 to 7180. 7 p.m. est I'm in Jacksonville, Fl, but I do throw a good signal up the east coast and out towards Alabama and Mississippi. Bob KB4WEC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al Perkins Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:26 AM To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Is the novelty of the "new" 40m bandwearing offalready? Gentlemen: As in every aspect of life we go as far as we can and as far as our understanding will take us. I for one have fought higher math and "Theroy" all my life and it does not click. So, I will be the best General operator I can be. I can probably shot better than most and survive in a hostile environment better than most but I cannot understand and fathom theory. Yes I could memorize the test but, I still would not be any more qualified than I am right now. We need to compromize and keep the hobby alive and work "All" licensed hams. Al Perkins 1SG RET. KA1KIX > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:04:23 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Is the novelty of the "new" 40m band wearing offalready? > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Bob Carpenter > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The "extra's" can't understand why "everybody" is not down there ! Might > > help if someone would pick a freq. that all HF ham's could use. There answer > > is get off your butt and up grade. > > I don't think that's it at all, Bob - particularly since there's > virtually zero activity up in the General portion as well. Nor is the > answer to "pick a freq.'" as that simply boxes us in and sets up > expectations for the anti-AM crowd to insist 'get back where you > belong'. Upgrading is always a plus (I'm only a lowly Advanced, my > license class doesn't even exist anymore in the testing structure!) > since it allows you full access to all amateur privileges, but at the > end of that day - getting on the air and off the internet is the only > way to improve activity - regardless of mode. The only 'radio season' > is the one we choose to impose personally. Static and interference - > intentional or otherwise - have always been an issue we've had to > contend with. > > Those who want to operate will be on the air, those who just want to > talk about it online will continue to do so. > > ~ Todd, KA1KAQ/4 > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Windows LiveT SkyDriveT: Get 25 GB of free online storage. http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_042009 ______________________________________________________________ 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. 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