I guess I'm one of the unclean. I licensed 3 1/2 years ago primarily because I wanted to be able to use my vessel's SSB while making an occasional offshore passage. Now I'm a die-hard Elecraft fan with a KX1, a K2, (jonesing for a KX3) and a slowly increasing code speed. Except for those occasions when I'm offshore and use Pactor3 to post position reports, and communicate via email with family and friends, I am almost exclusively CW these days.
I'm a little puzzled by the irritation with the presence of amateur Pactor3 transmissions in the Ham bands. The usual Pactor RMS frequencies seem to be well away from the commonly used CW frequencies (30m maybe an exception), and when operating CW I've never found them to be a problem. During contests, when the entire band is filled with CW ops, I can see how an op looking for a clear freq might run into QRM from sailors using Pactor modems. That's not to excuse those who fire up their modems without listening first, but normally there seems to be plenty of room for everybody. Chip AE5KA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
