It's really easy to attack someone if you don't name them, and just make up some accusation for some general thing that the un-named person suppsedly did. Let's see how well his narrow filter works when the unattended robot station is running 3 KW and only 5 or 10 miles from his QTH.
I wonder if K7YD has ANY information about these un-named persons he is accusing of illegal activity? Kind of funny to make these accusations against AM ops and others, and then lecture hams on how they should not argue among themselves and be divided in the very same e-mail message! He writes that "Trying to lock up any part of any band to the benefit of few will hurt us all in the end." OK - but then Doug criticizes those who are trying to do something to stop it... CC: K7YD, AM RADIO Doug Dunn, K7YD writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron and the rest: What blows me away is that the very people complaining loudly about "robot QRM" on the CW bands are some the same ones who will routinely plop a big fat overmodulated AM signal right in the middle of the 75 meter band, to heck with any SSB ops who may be in QSO nearby. It's the "nostalgic, warm, friendly mode"!! It's ok to be 16-25 khz wide when it's AM, but we are "broadcast quality old man". Sure, AM's got a "right" to be there too, but isnt it just a touch immoral to be a bandwidth hog on a chock full phone band? Robots are a beast also, and allowing them to bounce from one freq to the next, without any care for existing use is wrong. Most of the CW bunch, myself included have been around a while and can (should) be able to work around or through "robot" QRM. Narrow the filter, shift freq a touch, we all know how to do it. My idea is for us to bellyache less and operate more. The Robot ops will get the point when their data is full of reframes and dosent work on a given freq. We have trouble here in MT/ID with pactor interference to our NTS CW net, but we get through it, and they go away. A true friend of mine who worked for FCC in the past said: "If Hams would quit fighting amongst themselves and unite as one against any external organization, they would win the argument, hands down." I think he may have been right. True, there is a lot of money rolling around out there in the radio world. Many manufacturers are prying on the door to get into the market, especially the digital comms part of our hobby. Can we do anything about that? Not much. If you dont like it, DONT BUY THEIR GEAR! If a ship on the high seas has a licensed amateur on staff, guess what? That ham can set up on Winlink and they're off and running. Is someone going to sit and decode all the pactor II and III bursts just to see if it's commercial traffic? Nope. My fear is that FCC will soon tire of the hassle and we'll end up with channelized freqs for ANY emission type. That's not what would best benefit the hobby. Trying to lock up any part of any band to the benefit of few will hurt us all in the end. This is no different than the effort a few years back trying to nail down 60 meters for an AM band. It was a selfish move and went nowhere. But, made the folks pushing that idea look like monkeys. My thinking is: Technology is the primary mover and the camel in the tent here. To blame the League, the "Robot" ops, RTTY ops or any other group by emission is counter productive. But, if ya just cant resist being aggravated over something you have little contol of, then get after it! If we continue to step on the tail of FCC, one day that dragon will turn and it wont be too sweet. Read the new proposal when it comes out, hammer it into shape when given the opportunity. There were ONLY 1100 comments filed on the original. Given that we now number in the neighborhood of 700,000, that level of response is chickenfeed! Apathy gets us nowhere. Offer rational, well thought out comments and solutions. Make your voice heard. I hope next time, there would be 110,000 comments. Dont allow the few to set policy for the majority. Think it over. 73 to all Doug, K7YD Livingston, MT ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
