On 8/13/07, Brett gazdzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another thing that interests me is that I listen at night > and there are a bunch of the usual suspects talking > about nothing for the most part (80 meters). > Its so important to fit a few more appliance operators > on the band to talk with friends about their pickup truck > that you have to rain on others parade? > > That's hardly vital communications. >
Neither are contest exchanges, getting a "59" from a DX station to add another prefix to the list, or digimoders exchanging their Windows OS version and the model number of their RigBlaster. Let's not go there. I thought the argument was about using spectrum space efficiently. There are bands where it would be perfectly OK, license conditions aside, to use ESSB - anywhere above 28MHz springs to mind - but 80 metres isn't it. It doesn't matter what people want to talk about, anyone using more bandwidth than they need just to have nicer-sounding audio which is not essential to the actual conveying of information is just being plain selfish, on a band where clear frequencies are already hard to find. -- Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392 K3 s/n: ??? G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com Ham-Directory: www.ham-directory.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
