I like 40 cw a lot actually.  Its a good band except at night time when the
foreign bc stations come in.  So great dx! Go for it!
Barb [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Freeman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Wow!


> 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
> >
>