On Tue,1/20/2015 11:34 PM, tnny...@yahoo.com wrote:
The level of Snobbery here has crested the previous water mark.
Not snobbery at all. I'm simply trying to save people money by advising them not to buy stuff they don't need. Someone who wants to operate on a crowded band needs narrow filters. it sounds like you and your friends do.
The contesters I know are up to here with "nets" comprised of operators with ancient and el cheapo radios defending the frequencies they "own," justifying their "ownership" by calling them traffic nets, or "maritime nets" but almost never passing traffic and never checking in anyone on a boat, and rarely doing much more than checking in. Now, there's nothing wrong with any of that, but it gives those operators no more right to the frequency they have selected than the contester who hears an empty frequency, asks QRL?, hears nothing, and calls CQ.
I take pride in a very clean and narrow signal. My K3 with power amp has a -40 dB SSB bandwidth less than 3.5 kHz. If you want to operate next to me, you need to bring a good radio to the party. And I'm not going to QSY because you don't. And If I've established a run frequency and you've decided it's time for your "net," you can look for an empty frequency, just like I had to.
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