[Boatanchors] Re: [Milsurplus] Extra Class AM Window 3685 KC

[Peter Markavage]

Maybe the real issue is that you're trying to define and hold an
imaginary "AM Window". Generals now can run free on AM from 4000 to 3800,
Advanced from 4000 to 3700, and Extras from 4000 to 3600. The "garbage"
you refer to may be due in part to the inflexibility of finding another
frequency for the AMI net. Trying to command a frequency with brute force
and real early arrivals is just plain silly. Rather than confining your
Group to an AM "pen", wouldn't it be more beneficial to the AM Community
to spread out around the 75 meter band and show presence and not be
reduced to "back of the bus" mentality?
 
Pete, wa2cwa
 
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:14:36 -0700 telegrapher at att.net writes:
> One of the problems we have out here in the west is that there is a 
> group of 5 landers who park on 3870 and refuse to allow our one 
> night a 
> week operation on that frequency.  They say they can't understand 
> why we 
> won't move.  We've had several attempts at discussing this with them 
> but 
> they can't seem to understand our reasoning which is that all 
> classes of 
> operators can operate in the AM window and that if we all stay in 
> this 
> one area then they can have all the rest of the band and we wouldn't 
> 
> bother them.  It just doesn't sink in.  And their signals out here 
> are 
> terribly loud in the PM hours.  Even with stations running the max 
> legal 
> power for AM, 375 W carrier, they keep on yakking.  It really hurts 
> our 
> weekly AMI net and we have a lot of nights where the checkins number 
> 
> into the 30's +.  What we need is some of the midwestern states to 
> get 
> on 3870 around 4-5pm and  start up QSO's to occupy the frequency.  
> There 
> is also a "Texas Traffic net that has started up at 3873.  never 
> heard 
> them before a couple months ago.  This is the garbage we have to put 
> up 
> with.
> 
> Larry
> W0OGH