I've never found any problem on 75 meters.

BTW, 75 meters implies something other than

80 meters. Ever. I doubt any licensed amateur
would care to use any echo as it simply

degrades your intelligibility.

Except on broadcast audio AM..oh yea,,and FM. I'm no fan of echo when it
is used for a total repeat, but ask -any- broadcast engineer that worked
in commercial radio about a tinge of echo. There is a reason many of
those obnoxious car ads and others use echo in their commercials. It not
only grabs your attention, it demands it and is usually louder than the
regular programming, as is the majority of commercials. But echo is used
in ads because its characteristics work much better than non-echo on AM
and FM. When the effectiveness of echo is no longer effective in
advertsing on commercial radio, we will all cease to hear it. Big bucks
advertisers don't repeatedly spend money on ads that don't work.

I've run across a

few lids, but *very* few. None on 75 or 160.

73 from Rochester, NY

Jim AA2QA

Some of those lids save their "lidness" for their cb antics and some are
so scared to talk on CB anymore that all they do is deadkey. I hear (CW)
keyers on CB quite often. Well, not just CB, but the freeband more than
CB. Those keyers sure as hell aren't owned by the CB crowd.
You are right, though. Less on 160 than 2. None on 75? We have this
little town called LARGhettO in mid county. When you gonna visit your
folks? I wanna show you around my RF stomping grounds