Around here, 80 meters has about 3 qso's on the entire band in the daytime, so what is the problem running essb or other modes?
Its bad and rude to operate in a wide mode when bands are crowded, that's a given, but to say something is bad and cant ever be done below 28 MHz seems wrong. Brett N2DTS > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julian G4ILO > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 4:35 AM > To: elecraft > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB? > > 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: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > 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 > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
