Amen.  I spent many happy hours on 40 -- both on CW and on phone
(old-fashioned AM and then SSB).  40 has an interesting personality
ranging from an intrastate band to DX.

Of course, I'd be happy if the allocation would be what it was in this
country before 1951 - CW only throughout! (grin)  Ain't in the cards.  In
fact, I'd be interested in the rationale for that allocation in the first
place.  Any octoginarian FCC engineers on here?

73!

Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Richard WEbb wrote:

> HI folks,
>
> I've always liked 40 meters.  tHe broadcasters make it kind of tough
> to shoehorn yourself into a spot down there sometimes, but it's always
> had great potential.  WAs on 20 listening to 14.300 and it was going
> out, I was conversing with Toronto and EL Salvador on that freq last
> night with the station in El Salvador a rock solid s9 but Toronto and
> I effected by quite a bit of qsb.
>
> Lots of folks neglect forty for this reason, but fire up those rigs on
> the band and convince the broadcasters just by our presence that they
> need to not oppose us when we go for a worldwide 300 khz allocation on
> that band at the next warc.
>
> 73 de nf5b
>
>
>
> Richard Webb
>
> Electric Spider Productions
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>
> --- Benjamin Franklin November 1755
>