On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Dave Mayfield W9WRL <[email protected]> wrote: > Because, Some guys are rock bound. It is normal operating procedure that > AM op's take place at 3880, 3885, 3890. No one buys a rock to operated a > vintage transmitter at 3887. You can say what you want the bottom line > is this. the net control for the Military net should have done a better > job, and no one should start a Q on 3887 the middle of the road. To do > so is just not understanding what your doing.
Not trying to pick a fight Dave, but I have to agree with Bernie on this one. Being rockbound is a choice and can be fun, but I'd bet it's more the exception than the rule. Sometimes the situation dictates using an odd frequency simply to give another, ongoing QSO enough space (regardless of mode). Everyone I know who operates with crystal control also has a VFO option available to use in order to participate in such conversations. Not only that, I have a lot of odd frequency crystals in the box here that were ground decades ago. Applying channelized thinking to today's bands for fone work is just too limiting. Right up there with restricting yourself to an imaginary "AM Window" tiny sliver of space. The same rules apply to frequencies in use regardless of whether they are even, odd, whole, or round. It's not like the bands are terribly congested these days. Expecting the vast majority to restrict their spectrum use to suit the possible few doesn't make sense either, in my opinion. But it is a hobby, and folks are free to operate what and how they choose, within the rules. Of course, I also heard Bernie respond with an S9+20 signal to a CQ on 40m a few weeks back 4 kcs away from an ongoing QSO I was in with several other ops, then complain about the interference we were causing. Being 40, I chose to give him the benefit of the doubt. (o: ~ 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
