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December 30th 03, 01:49 PM

(Brian Kelly) stumbles through this message
. com...
. . n2ey & Brainiac go at it. "Entertainment is where ya find it" . .

n2ey sez:

Some folks wonder about the claim of overcrowding. In order to
appreciate what amateur radio was like back then, it's necessary to
understand what technologies and operating practices were in use by
average hams.

w3rv jumps in he

I basically agree with your contention but it needs to be expanded
(particularly sincs Brainiac is on the freq). The reason the bands
were "crowded" back then was simply because of the absolutely
ferschtink selectivity even the state-of-the-art superhet rcvrs of
those days provided. On top of the problems those folk had with their
wandering oscillators.

I daresay that if the 1931 hams had any of today's cheapest
consumer-level MF/HF xcvrs they would have, on average, found a
*whole* lot of dead space between signals in the ham bands.

So 13wpm was the solution.

Consider this: The bands were crowded enough back then that as early
as 1931 some enterprising hams (W6DEI, Ray Moore, and others) built
and operated single-sideband transmitters and receivers.

Here comes me again:

The big trick SSB brought to the game had nothing to do with bandwidth
and/or "interfernce reduction". It had and has everything to do with
the abilty of SSB to eliminate the AM carrier which sucks up power,
equipment space and money and conveys no intelligence to the listener
whatsoever.

So 13wpm was the answer?

Brainiac responds to n2ey:

But that was some 72 years ago. Cop's invention was only 40 years ago
and you discount it.

Jim, I'm beginning to see a pattern of untruths and inconsistency in
your postings. And I'll not ever refer to you as Rev. Jim again, no
matter how many swear words you snip out of other peoples posts. You
are unworthy, and definitely bear watching.

w3rv sez pffft! Pot calling kettle black again.

Do you still think I'm going to put up an antenna in your back yard?

Your village is starting to grumble ... time for you to go home.

. . T5 logs. Gonna toss 'em into the LoW are ya Burke? Hmmm??

What's it to you? You're not in my logs. You're not going to get my
card no matter how often you bring it up.

But you divert the thread from a proposed change in the rules.

Jim has proposed that we eliminate all classes except Extra, and roll
all of the question pools together.

What is your comment?