"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:48:18PM -0500, Al Parker wrote:
> Got the 'new" TenTec Triton IV on the air this wk. Got it to re-live > my first modern rig & see if it's still as neat as it was 30 yrs ago. Neat rado, Huh? I recently got my second, I had one 10 years ago and sold it when I moved here in 1996. > pretty good job with it. I haven't cruised the CW bands much in the last > yr or so, and was disgusted at all the digital crap (and voice) that has > worked it's way down as far as 7030. That's caused by two things, With the exception of a few countries that have opened up 7100-7200, 40 meters for most of the world is 7000-7100. We don't have a choice. Your inability to use those frequencies for voice along with the digital signals up there eat up 40m for many hams. The 7100-7300 band is almost unuseable here anyway, in order to work split you need to be able to pick out a relatively weak SSB signal sent on a small antenna from among megawatt AM signals sent out with huge antennas only one skip away. Many broadcasters go to sleep around 2-3 AM but then so do I. :-) Digital used to be a neat idea and needed to be fostered. When the digital signals clustered around 7090, it was ok, but they have snuck down well below 7050. In many CEPT countries the class B, aka "general" hams only have any privledges from 7050 to 7100. Imagine how they feel. 40 meters aside, it does hold up well use it well and enjoy it. Maybe some day when the sun spots return we can work each other on 20m. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 You should have boycotted Google while you could, now Google supported BPL is in action. Time is running out on worldwide radio communication. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: www.zerobeat.net - sponsored by www.tlchost.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
