Jim:

Well friend, you have been isolated.

Out here in the real world kids are cussing like sailors in grade
school, 11 year old girls are actively seeking to become pregnant,
drugs are much more prevalent than ever in the 60's and 70's.

The only areas where cussing is not seen is churches...

Whether you like it or not reality has changed...

You have hidden from the real world on 160m for far too long, and
since you have not joined the real world, the real world now comes to
you...

Get over it, for at least the near future, things are NOT going the
way most of us like--the answer to this is not setting aside 160m for
ancient old men to hide in...

John

"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
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"John Smith" wrote in message
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OMG:

I never thought about that, with the great influx of all these new
hams firing up their keys and going CW on us, phone might be in
danger!!! grin

John



Hello, John

Nope, but I've never encountered a foul word nor bad operating
procedure on
cw. 160 used to be fine, even on voice mode, but other bands were
... well,
a bit different. With the 14.313 gang going a while back plus the
75 meter
folks .... well, 80 meter cw sounds good to me LOL.

The nice thing about cw is that there is seldom, if ever, rude
operation
(contests don't count. Never cared for 'em and it is going to be
hot and
heavy in a contest. That is part of the game. Not rude, just hot
and heavy
and sometimes a bit chaotic). SSB needs close to 3 kHz of room and
the
power is spread over that 3 kHz (albeit not evenly). You don't need
more
than a few hundred Hertz for cw, so once you set your bandwidth to
300 Hz or
less, you've just obtained a good 10 dB attenuation of the guy
trying to
irritate you. Of course, you can reduce bandwidth a bit more, but
the audio
isn't evenly spread over the spectrum. In many cases you can gain
20 dB or
more advantage. Mike was running 1 kw input vs my 75 watts. His
bandwidth
was 50% in the carrier (not to be heard) and the remaining 50% of
his power
was spread over 6 kHz as he was running am. I didn't even hear him.

With a good notch filter, he didn't even have to hear me. He could
have
carried on a conversation on am with another station whilst I
chatted with
the other guy with virtually no mutual interference. Four stations
in the
same "channel" .... with no interference.

Dang! I just may become more pro-code LOL



73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA