Don, I was around in the mid-sixties and was a witness to all the jamming and miscreant actions against AM. I well remember the AM-SSB wars that took place on 75M! I particularly recall K4BTQ and his vulgar outbursts against SSB. This guy was a racist and an antisemite, so you can imagine the nature of his diatribes! They were awful, but hilarious.
Ed, VA3ES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don k4kyv wrote: The original anti-AM element in amateur radio probably go all the way back to the days before CB. <snip> Once those cheap rigs hit the market, the floodgates were opened and that was when the great AM/SSB wars erupted in the mid-60's. A legacy of this conflict that still persists to this day throughout ham radio is the deliberate interference and jamming that became commonplace during that era. <snip> So, some of the anti-AM crowd we hear to-day are old timers, veterans of the 60's AM vs. SSB wars, although many of those are now SK, and others have mellowed out in their old age, some of whom have actually returned to AM.. ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
