My God,  you guys all getting on and active would be overmod and overload
heaven just like working a multi-transmitter site at field-day.  Only
difference is you deal with it almost all the time, lol.

And, Kevin, how in the world in a land as vast as Canada did you end up on a
street so populated by hams?  Is the city zoned only to allow ham radio in a
small section (grin)?

Steve, K8SP
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From: "Kevin Kwan" <
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: echolink

>I have to echo Ron's feelings about interference. It's not a big issue with
> my neibors but it does pop up from time to time. Even with bare foot power
> on hf, there's minimal interference with others. Sometimes the
> interference
> is because I have other neibors that are hams that operate hf as well. So
> the idea at this house is common courtesy. Being that these operators have
> lived on this street longer than myself, I'm usually the one who
> compromises
> and make adjustments. Echolink really helps because if my neibor is on 40
> M,
> since I'm three houses away that can be trouble. It does help when he's on
> the cw portion of 40 and I'm way up in the phone portion, but that's a
> part
> of compromising I'm referring to. When he's on the Canadian portion of 80,
> I
> travel further so I don't conflict. I don't know how many of you on list
> have neibors who are hams, but there are 3 in this street. One is active
> on
> 10 M slowscan, the other has all bands, and the closest one to me is
> active
> on 40 and 80.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Canazzi" <
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> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:28 AM
> Subject: Re: echolink
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>
> Hi List,
>
> Well, HF is fine if you are living on an estate somewhere and if you can
> have room for the antennas.  I would dearly like to have an estate some
> day
> and be able to run high power and huge antennas.  But while I certainly
> haven't abandon HF and will use it when the cycle is high again, I feel
> Echo
> Link is a viable alternative for poor people like me who are
> self-employed,
> have no pensions, no health care and only a small lot on which to place
> antennas.