PLEASE lets NOT go down the digital ruined the world rabbit hole again!
its a discussion for a different venue PLEASE
I am not a moderator, just a list member with a sore delete finger. I DO want
to hear what the folks actually on the air are accomplishing. but I do NOT want
to hear doom and gloom about SSB ruining the AM bands, or Digital is the end of
the world, its NOT topband material.
Robin, WA6CDR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 14:52
Subject: Re: Topband: K9FD
On 9/28/2022 1:34 PM, kolson@rcn.com wrote:
Seriously, he developed the mode, but it was the general Ham population that
popularized it. They "voted" to operate that mode out of free will, many
because folks with mediocre stations had very little opportunity to work DX
at the sunspot doldrums, some because they just didn't enjoy the other legacy
modes, etc. No one stopped anyone who actually wanted to get on CW (or any
other mode) from doing so. So "they" didn't ruin 160m, 6m or anything else,
for that matter.
Blaming the decline of 160M CW activity on FT8 is barking up the wrong tree.
Two factors are far more important. Both here, and on a jazz email reflector
I've participated in for at least 25 years, we're getting older, getting less
active, far too many QSYing away from the green side of the grass. Note the
recent post from one of the guys in VK who noted that as he got older, he was
no longer motivated to be on the air at the crack of dawn to work DX.
The second factor is noise. In a San Francisco SBE chapter meeting I just
attended online, it was noted that noise levels on the AM broadcast band have
risen more than 20 dB. The presenter, from Orban, a long time leader in signal
processing, is a ham, and at least half of the attendees listed their ham
calls. The primary objective of broadcast signal processing is maximizing
loudness; on the FM band, it's about maximizing the excitement level of music;
on the AM band, it's about getting through that noise.
I've known that presenter, W9CN, from our days in Chicago more than 40 years
ago!
73, Jim K9YC
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