There are guys on 3910 who do all those things and more even now. It's 
craziness. I listen once in a while but there's no way I'd even try to get 
in there, even with my amp I'd be eaten alive.
----- 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