[AMRadio] Re: ARRL President Hates AM

[Bruce - KB6LWN]

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Donald Chester wrote:

> 
> I just talked with a Texas station who told me about a
> recent conversation with ARRL President Jim Haynie,
> W5JBP, whom he described as "extremely disdainful" of
> AM. He said that Haynie was
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> (Name and c/s omitted to protect my source) said:
> 
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> did say it to God and all on the repeater...He does not
> like the AM mode and really gets on some of us here who
> have

I feel the bottom line here IS...
Just because this fellow happens to be in a place of
authority, the fact that "HE" doesn't like AM is beside
the point...  If he feels that way about it ?  Then "he"
doesn't have to, and is in no way 'forced' to use that
mode.  I could say that I don't like hearing CW, but does
that mean that it should be done away with because "I"
don't like it ?  The same goes for ANY mode, there are
those that enjoy operating one mode and can't even stand
listening to another (if ANY mode is objectionable one
would think it would be the one where everyone sounds
like 'Donald Duck'!)  AT least with AM you get to hear
the operators true (or at least as close as "radio" can
get) voice.  To ME! That makes it interesting, esp to
hear a voice and get a mental picture of what the op
on the other end might look like, and now with the inet
we can actually get a chance to SEE if our mental pic
is even close :)