[AMRadio] Some QSO questions

CL in NC mjcal77 at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 19 13:32:54 EDT 2019


Since discussion has been a little light here lately, thought I would ask some questions:

Do most folks on this list stick together using AM or CW  vintage, or milsurp and working their own groups or seek like minded folks?  
Do you venture out on the bands and work everybody?  
How do you handle the exact-on-my frequency folks?
Do you think most hams know what the RIT control is for?
When your Drake/Collins/Heath/Swan/Galaxy SSB station is tuned to a freq such as 21.2754 and someone tells you that you're off freq, what do you say? (The expect you to be on 21.375 or .376 even)
Do you keep your vintage for vintage nets and events, but use modern for everything else?
Do you think the future of hamming is turning the HF bands into a version of WIFI?
Have you heard 6 meters open to everywhere by the beacons heard, but no CW, SSB, FM simplex, AM operation could be raised up, but the FT8 crowed was wall to wall up around their 50.3 freq?
Do you find that the conversations you have with operators who are all about the latest whizz bang gear, interesting?
Have you run across hams who think the vintage gear you are using is illegal now or should be banned?
Have you made any CW contacts between 21.1 and 21.2 since the end of the Novice License?

In addition to dealing with some of the above issues, I just read September's QST and those are the questions that popped in my head, thought I would ask here.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC


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