On 12/10/2013 8:27 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Well, I HAVE heard of people going "down" to 10 meters. And 160 meters
didn't get the name "top band" for being down. But it's been a long, long
time since anyone I heard spoke in meters.
Been a ham since '52. Maybe it was my interest in the history of "wireless"
that indoctrinated me.
But I've learned to leave up and down out unless I'm specific about
wavelength or frequency.
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:30:01 -0800 (PST), Neal Enault wrote:
In over 50 yrs of ham radio, I've never heard ANYONE on a lower band say
they are going down to 10 meters, or 6 meters. My sentence above points
right at it.
I said a LOWER band. Even the old timers said "I'm going down to 160
meters."
Why fight tradition?
In the early days of wireless, it was all wavelength ... "600 meters,"
which sort of made sense because your antenna often determined the
"frequency" of your transmitter. Hams were finally relegated to "200
meters and down." When vacuum tubes came along, we all began thinking
more in frequency than wavelength.
The reason we Old Timers think in terms of frequency like everyone else
is because, despite being old, we're not THAT old. Those "wavelength"
OT's are all dead now. :-)
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org
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