"Frank Gilliland" wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:59:01 GMT, "Jim Hampton"
wrote in :


"John Smith" wrote in message
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How many of your high powered linears are already ready for the
10-12-15-17-20+ meter bands?

Think there will be a big influx of truckers to the ham bands, or will
they stay put? According to some hams, there is so much hero worship of
them, you chicken banders are just watering at the mouth to get on
amateur HF's. What do you say?

JS

Dunno, John

All I know is that when I had a problem in the 60s with a high powered am
guy that jumped on my qso, I changed to cw. We contined our chat for a
good
45 minutes and couldn't even hear that kilowatt station. Nothing like a
small bandwidth and filters to go along with it. That doesn't mean that
the
high power stations can't communicate; it means that they are very
unlikely
to bother a couple of cw stations, regardless of power. And the voice is
not spread evenly. You can give a 50 to 1 power advantage away very
easily.
Even more, if the cw stations have the proper filtering.

At 40 - 50 words per minute, we weren't giving away much in terms of
communications either LOL

Interesting thing is that cw is legal anywhere in the ham bands ....


Hey Jim, you really need to give 1750M a shot. You'd love it!




Years ago I used to do 1750. Just before I gave away my equipment I took it
out and loaded up an old AM broadcast antenna that was off the air. That was
fun until the mall security came by and asked what I was doing..