On 16 May 2006 08:53:57 -0700, "Stephanie Weil"
wrote:

Telamon

Every time I used meter band indication I got complaints from other
posters on the news group. People wold rather you stated the frequency
so I post 15 MHz band instead of 19 meters

I guess it has to do with what you've gotten used to.

See, I grew up listening to SW stations on ghettoblaster (jam box)
radio/cassette units. So I got used to spinning the regular knob until
you reach the desired wave band, then diddling the fine-tuning knob to
zero in on the frequency.

And that's how I think. Meter band and then that particular frequency
within that band.

Stephanie

That's how hams do it. And R. Moscow never gave frequencies, just
meter bands. In the age of the digital readouts you have to divide
the meter band into 300 to figure out what people are talking about,
unless you have that **** memorized (which I refuse to do).