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![]() "Hank Oredson" wrote in message ink.net... "Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message ... Caveat Lector wrote: There is this to understand All of the below is old hat and has been going on for a long time -- 30 years that I know of. No worse now as compared to then. I would disagree with that assessment. There are a lot of things in ham radio that aren't worse than they were 30 years ago. But this isn't one of them. I got my license in 1973 and I clearly remember a day when if you would listen, you could almost always find the guy the DX was working. Yeah, there were plenty of people who didn't know that - who would just pick a transmit frequency at random & just call there - but they didn't call continuously *every time* the DX stopped transmitting. And WHILE the DX is transmitting ... Indeed, while I hate to join the "I hate packet" bandwagon there really does seem to be a correlation between continuous calling and the explosive growth of spotting nets. Used to use things like the telephone and of course 10M AM. The local group tended to monitor 28.7. -- ... Hank http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli And in the past, many DX clubs set up DX spotting repeaters on 2M -- some with 200 members Also 2M simplex And prior to that folks gave a one ringer landline call to their DX buddies as u sed. An before the clusters, avid DXers subscribed to DX newsletters to "spot" the DX Ala The West Coast DX Bulletin by Hugh Cassidy WA6AUD Or now a days The Daily DX. Any difference between these and today's Packet Cluster other than wide distribution ????? |
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