freed you're right my mistake. 73- pat kk3f
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Adams" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: 75 meters


> Phil, I believe the low end of the 75 meter band now starts at 3.600 for
> extra class and this is the phone portion of the band.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 11:54 PM
> Subject: 75 meters
>
>
>> Doesn't the 75 meter phone band now start at 3700?  A couple of nights
>> ago,
>> maybe it was Friday night, 75 meter phone sounded like old times with 
>> tons
>> of activity.  I even heard a station playing music on side band trying to
>> jam a couple of guys who switched to upper side band to get away from 
>> him.
>> Remind me of the side band wars back in the sixties.  For those of you 
>> who
>> don't know, 75 meters had guys who literally ran 10 and 20 thousand watts
>> back in those days.  Talk about big signals.  Remember NASAC on 3815?
>> Those
>> guys ran low power compared to the 3830 bunch.  I hung out with the guys
>> on
>> 3803 such as WA9SXJ and WA0PXQ and a few other's.  One night, SXJ was so
>> loud, he sounded like a mobile parked out in front of my house.  I heard
>> mom
>> washing clothes downstairs and called her in to read my S meter on my
>> Drake
>> TR4 and Ray was running a solid 60 over nine.  My meter had never gone
>> that
>> high except when a friend did in fact drive by my house mobile on 15
>> meters
>> and said hello to me.
>>
>> Phil.
>> K0NX
>