[Boatanchors] A short Vent (Added to...)

[ebjr37 at charter.net]

Mark,

BRAVO!

Some of the critics nowadays are now "all knowing" ex- "Chickenbanders"! 
"Experts" with a lot of "knowhow"!

I have been at this game (amateur radio) for quite a while.  I find out 
frequently my favorite axiom: "The more you know, the more you know that 
you don't know".  In simpler language: "The smarter you get, the more 
you find out how stupid you and others really are!"

There "ain't no such thing as an EXPERT"!!  Anyone.........yes,  ANYONE 
who claims to be an expert is frequently full of "bovine fecal matter"! 
No, there really isn't any experts!

Nothing beats good old bandwidth using, power wasting Amplitude 
modulation.  Two sidebands and power wasting carrier.  There is 
something special about it.  Even the self proclaimed "hamband 
audiophiles" with their "hi-fi" SSB fool themselves daily bragging about 
the audio quality of their expensive compressors, expanders and 
additional junque that they delight their listeners with.   Somehow they 
don't seem to realize the crap they are broadcasting like pseudo 
"controlled carriers etc. that "QRM" their SSB neighbors 3 khz away. 
(Sorry, tongue poking hard into cheek!)

Don't forget the "modern" digital bunch that abhors Cw and continous 
wave, deemed long obsolete and useless.  Designed to prevent some people 
from becoming "ham operators"
and now rescued by the elimination of useless old fashioned 
"radiotelegraphic" code from required practice in their new knowledge of 
"digital" radio communication.  (A brain is a terrible thing to waste 
now that we have ever more complex and smaller digital computers at our 
disposal.)  {Yes some people seem to have forggotten how to use their 
precious, marvelous "brain" they were born with!}

So some of us "old timers" still persist in using the "old obsolete" 
technology taxing our brain mercelessly by those who still practice this 
almost "lost art" of the past.!

I also enjoy the art and chellenge STILL of CW, AM, and SSB in spite of 
the digital "interpretors" we "MUST HAVE" to understand what is being 
communicated in our new digital world!

I understand your "vent" completely Mark!    AGAIN:  "BRAVO!!"....

73 to all,

Sandy W5TVW


On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Mark K3MSB wrote:

> AM Obsolete?
>
> HA!  I made 30 QSOs on that "obsolete mode" this morning as W1AW/3 in
> Pennsylvania.
>
> A lot of my contacts said thanks for getting on AM.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
> Sent from my Android phone
> On Dec 27, 2014 10:26 AM, "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <w5sum at comcast.net>
>>
>>
>>  I had a ssb feller call me on 3889 once .....
>>> he got really angry...
>>>
>>
>> It's interesting how many SSB Nazis appoint themselves
>> to set the standard for what modes may be used where.  I love it when 
>> they
>> bring-up the "straw man" arguement about how "AM is obsolete," as 
>> though
>> that had a thing
>> to do with the issue or AM's suitablity for use.
>> If they want to play that game, we can toss about 80%
>> of the modes we use.   SSB goes back to the 1920s and '30s.
>> It sounded like crap then, too.
>>
>> A "thank you and good day, OM" sometimes works
>> to send the SSB Kilocycle Cops back under their moldy rocks. When 
>> not,
>> crank it up and "share the frequency."
>>
>> 73 Dave S.
>>
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