Hello,
There are people who just do not enjoy life unless they cause discomfort for others.
I remember that I got my CB License in 1978.
It was right after the Blizzard. I was one of those weird people who used my callsign:
KBIJ5291 all of the time.
There were some CBERS who used _! radios in inappropriate ways and got 10-meter rigs to work 11 meters.
I had a Browning Eagle which was run in Compliance with the FCC.
People kept wanted me to peek it which I didn't.
After I got my Amateur Radio License I got on CB to talk to someone I knew who was very ill.
I cn't wait to turn the radio off.
Once this person passed away my CB antenna and radio were history.
There "were always people on CB who acted inappropriately. I know there are some on Amateur Radio but I am happy to say I have never heard any.
That is probably because I only participate in Traffic Nes and Emergency Traffic handling.
I never do any contesting since I listened to this once and decided it isn't for me.
There will always be people in the world who think they are above common codes of conduct.
Colleen Roth, N8TNV;
----- Original Message -----
From: Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Monday, April 29, 2013 5:09 pm
Subject: Re: The Sideband War
>
>
> That is why I always laugh when some old time ham operator hears about
> 14.313 and goes on and on at great length about the state of ham radio today
> etc etc.
> It's been the same since the beginning lol...nothing changes really as far
> as people being people.
> No kids, no lids, no space cadets.
> I hear an awful lot of whining that the FCC and industry Canada aren't doing
> anything about the 14.313 crue...ag, this is nothing new and for the most
> part they are left to their own devices because they're not really bothering
> anyone except themselves.
> If they cracked down on the 14.313 gang, they'd have to crack down on
> hundreds, maybe thousands of others on 75 and 80 who are just as bad.
> The thing is that those yahoos on 20M can be heard over a much bigger area
> than anyone doing the same on 75...s the low band yahoos don't get the
> notariety that the ve6kfm's of this world get lol.
> It's like this, if you go to a restaurant, and you don't like the food, or
> you think it's just awful, it doesn't mean all restaurants are awful, and it
> won't effect or somehow impact your favorite restaurant.
> If you don't like it, don't go there. It's not like the bad restaurant's
> food is going to somehow make it's way into your favorite dish at your
> favorite restaurant.
> The 14.313ers stay there and you never ever hear those guys on any other
> frequencies...and if you do, they're behaving themselves.
>
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin G. McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 2:54 PM
> Subject: Re: The Sideband War
>
>
> > I was still a SWL in the sixties and remember the
> > sideband war vividly. It was going on as late as 1968 and 1969
> > and had all the same trappings as what you hear on 14.313 today.
> >
> > There is a subset of amateur operators who think this is
> > somehow okay. Back then, they were jamming and cursing each
> > other over sideband versus AM and today, it is the same behavior
> > over Heaven knows what. It's hard to tell because it just kind
> > of goes on and on for no particularly good reason.
> >
> > The only thing I can say is that when they are all on
> > 14.313 or 3.850 making fools of themselves, they are off all the
> > other frequencies and life is more civilized there. Think of it
> > as kind of a dummy load. Many of them like to use big amplifiers
> > and, if they would all aim at the same patch of ionosphere, they
> > could possibly heat it up enough to open up ten meters or maybe
> > even 6.
> >
> > Anyway, the sideband war was just the excuse for rotten
> > behavior for that day. The same personality types really don't
> > need an excuse to be idiots so there will always be scoff-laws
> > who don't really understand what amateur radio is all about.
> >
> > Thanks for a good bit of history.
> >
> > 73, Martin
> > "Ronald E. Milliman" writes:
> >> Re the Sideband war
> >>
> >> When sideband was first introduced, it was double sideband; that is, both
> >> sidebands were transmitted, but the carrier was suppressed. Thus, the
> >> signal still took up about the same bandwidth, but all of the
> >> transmitting
> >> energy was put in the audio component of the signal and not wasting power
> >> in the production and transmission of an unnecessary carrier.
> >
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