"Hans Kohb" wrote in message news:23340ef8c0f36832979d5f2d70c241e4.128005@myga te.mailgate.org...
"Kim W5TIT" wrote


When I was drawn to and got my ticket, you know what the greatest relief
was? Being able to turn a radio on and not hear all that hissing,
heterodyning, etc.!!! FM is great and that is what I like most about ham
radio. HF sucks for all the noise.


Well, I feel exactly the opposite. To me, FM is boring, but hidden in
all that noise and hissing on HF are the reasons I love ham radio.
Reasons like John, 9M2GV, an expat Brit running a rubber plantation
overlooking the Mallacca Straits. Reasons like Sparky, W3UBM/MM making
the Pacific runs on the rusty old SS Manderson Victory. Reasons
like working K0IR (as VK0IR) on three modes and five bands from
Heard Island, almost at the antipode on the low side of the
freckles-del-Sol. In other words, picking out an almost ghostly
signal from the molecular noise of the universe and finding a
friend, a kindred soul playing exhuberantly in the ether.

BINGO! . . . they can't be "bothered" . . "Viva le Rubber Duckie!"
BAH!


FM sucks
for all the silence.

Creeping phenomenon around he 2M SSB. Turns out 2M "simplex SSB" is
often beating the area coverages of the machines. Whatta big surprise.
Typical exchange when a machine drops into one of it's BS levels: "OK,
George let's get outta this nonsense, take it 145.XXX." No roger
beeps, no machine politics, no duckie operators, real radio.

YMMV.

73, de Hans, K0HB
Grand Exhalted Liberator of the Electric Smoke

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