Does anyone remember 3830Khz  in the Midwest? There was some pretty interesting characters on that frequency.

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> On May 17, 2014, at 8:44 PM, "Martin G. McCormick" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>    I was a short wave listener back in to the early to mid
> sixties and became an amateur radio operator in 1969 but didn't
> get on the air until 1970 so my memory of what used to go on
> back in the day is reasonably long-lived.
>    It was not any better back then except you had to do
> more work to play music and noises than you do these days with
> computers and nice ways to organize one's sound effects
> libraries. My goodness, think how hard it would have been back
> in the sixties to make a repeating loop of some vulgar remark or
> a multi track song about some other ham's behavior. The list goes
> on. The variety of garbage is wider now than then and the music
> has much better fidelity than it did then.
>    In the sixties, the sidebanders fought with the AM'ers
> on a nightly basis and K4EGB in Paduka, Kentucky could be heard
> on 80 with a whopping signal giving his take on the world and
> how it aught to be. There were countless other voices on AM and
> SSB screaming the same sort of racist and homofobic taunts at
> each other and sending CW and slow-scan racket to jam the
> frequency not to mention swishing their VFO's back and forth and
> cursing everybody else for behaving like CB'ers. It puts me in
> mind of lots of pots and kettles with high photonic absorption coefficients
> or low alvidos somewhere near their IQ's. Some of the biggest
> miscreants were people who should have been setting examples but
> instead just fanned the flames. No, it wasn't better in the old
> days. It wasn't even that different.
>    All we can do is not participate in the trash that goes
> on on 14.313 or various frequencies on 75 meters late at night.
>    One thing that has changed is that the FCC enforcement
> staff is down from what it used to be and we need more people
> like Riley Hollingsworth who turned the racket down during his
> term by taking out some of the worst offenders. This stuff
> tends to snowball and there are those who think self-policing
> means behaving like some sort of policeman which just adds to the
> noise. I think even the level of enforcement ebbed and flowed in
> the sixties depending on what activities were thought to be
> important at the time.
>    I admit that I sometimes listen to that junk and marvel
> at the extent some of these yo-yo go to to QRM people they don't
> like. What a misuse of resources and an incentive for world
> regulators to just pull the plug on the amateur service
> all together. I doubt they will do that, but I hope we again get
> enforcement in the US and Canada that cares enough to go after
> the really bad eggs. As soon as it becomes known that trashing
> the air has real consequences, a lot of this junk will simply
> disappear.
> 73
> WB5AGZ
> Eric Oyen writes:
>> Has anyone noticed the level of intentional QRM on the ham bands lately? =
>> I just heard some interesting stuff on 14.278. It appears that the 11 =
>> meter crowd is starting to play the old games on 20 now. Recordings, =
>> noise makers, fowl (and not as a bird) language, etc. I long for a =
>> return to the older days of HF when lids like this were tracked down and =
>> dealt with promptly.
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