In a message dated 8/29/00 8:43:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wy6k@yahoo.com
writes:
>
> You understate the interference problem.
>
> Here in Northern California the lower 25Khz of
> 10meters is filled with CBers on AM and SSB. There
> have two instances in the last week where I was unable
> to work two Dxpeditions with weak signals because of
> this interference.
>
> My solution will be to put my 10 meter yagi back up -
> I've been using a ground plane.
>
> I would be interested in the justifcation if your
> statement that amps are operated more skillfully by
> CBers than by Hams.
>
> Mike wy6k
> --- Eric Dobrowansky <kk2ed@adelphia.net> wrote:
> >
> > Flame suit on........ (I DO NOT promote such
> > activity, but I am also not
> > blind to the real world!)
>
> > The CBers that are buying these high-price "ham"
> > amplifiers are operating
> > them with more skill than the average ham, stay
> > within the so-called
> > "freeband (26-28MHz), and know where/how to operate
> > without attracting
> > unnecessary attention (i.e.: 28.0-29.7 MHz, 24.5
> > MHz). Some are hams
> > themselves. Some have even been unfortunate enough
> > to get caught up in it
> > (look at the recent FCC enforcement logs)
What a bunch of COD SWALLOP...to hear you tell it, CB'ers know everything and
Hams know nothing. My guess is that most CB'ers have trouble telling their
right hand from their left.
> >
> > BTW, I'd rather have them using the cleaner
> > ham-grade amplifiers rather than
> > some of the gray-market wideband and dirty solid
> > state transistor boxes that
> > are readily available to them.
> >
Yeah, and I'd rather have my children shooting up dope with CLEAN needles
supplied by the government than using dirty needles which might hurt them.Boy
am I a MORON.
This crap about 75 meters and the CB band is just a bunch of marijuana smoke.
Dave, WT8R
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