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160 was popular with 'phone men, but a decent antenna
for that band was/is enormous and BCI could be a real devil.


Phone women too. My Mom's xmtr was hardwired for160 (no plug-ins).


Put 4600 hams (10% of the total licensees) on the air at once and each
would less than 250 cycles. The bands WERE approaching saturation.


Only theoretically. Geographic sharing isn't a post-war invention.

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de Hans, K0HB