For better or for worse, most Hams have moved beyond the days of sitting quietly in front of the receiver and tuning very slowly across a seemingly "dead" band listening for the whisper of a signal.
For me it was at once a frustrating and a magical experience far removed from today's shacks filled with huge flat panels displaying the activity across the band at a glance, the computer screens showing the latest activity reported on the internet, and rigs that QSY anywhere in the spectrum at the touch of a single button. As an old pilot, for me it's the difference between floating through the sky in my J3 "Cub" with little more than an altimeter and a big windshield in from of me and visiting a modern airliner cockpit filled with glass panel displays and computers actually doing the flying while the pilot sips a cup of coffee. 73 Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- It's still as tough as it's always been, just like a hailstorm of callers for which you need a good rx and even better ears to sort out. As the population of P3s and other panadapters expands, more random listening might help, rather than ploughing a furrow. David G3UNA T32C ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
