I happen to LOVe am and hifi ssb   in fact I can NOt stand the pinched up crap audio that so many people say is so great... i will tune away from a pnched up distored over processed station... anyone who says there is no room go down to 3.6 mhz in the extra class potion of 80, and see jus thow crowded it is
it is craowded if yo unever turn your rusty vfo

On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:52 AM, Howard Kaufman wrote:

> I must be missing something here.  Even on Field Day, the WRC bands are 
> free, and their are still room for QSOS on the standard HF bands.
> Is your rag chew so drastically important that you can't get along with out 
> it for a day?
> Are your values so right that everybody must conform to them at all times? 
> This is the kind of Nazi logic that would have forced AM phone off the air, 
> and deprived thousands of operators and thousands more of listeners to 
> switch to Single Sideband for their phone operation.  Next goes the 
> operators of vintage sideband stations, and the experimenters with high 
> fidelity sideband.  Sorry guys, their is more than enough room on the bands. 
> Really!
> 
> 
> You could argue that CW should be forbidden, because digital modes can make 
> the same contact when the human ear can't detect the signal.  I just hate 
> intolerant people!!  Grin!  So you know I am poking fun at me here.