Rich Mulvey wrote: > But hey - let's try something truly radical: How about - wait for it, > this is truly a novel idea - how about manually operated stations > operate somewhere away from the automatic subbands? > > I know, I know, just because there are *wide* swaths of practically > unused frequencies that are legally available for use for digital > modes doesn't mean that they're any fun to use. It's *much* more > entertaining to work *within* the well-known automatic segments and > then wail and complain about getting stepped on, even when there's a > vast wasteland of unused space a kHz or two down the band. But hey, > if we wanted to use logic and reason, we wouldn't all be hams, right? > > > - Rich
The above is the best example of turning the facts on their head, 180 degrees around, that I have heard in some time. The fact is, the automated Pactor stations are the ones who have consistently refused to operate in their own subband, and have instead insisted on sharing all of the freqs generally used (first!) by the keyboard-to-keyboard modes. If the Pactor stations had been willing to stay up in the old Packet segment, no one would go up there and they would probably have it all to themselves. But no, they have always insisted on also working down around 7070 and 14070 for example, to our infinite harm. de Roger W6VZV
