[Elecraft] XG3 Band Change

[Fred Jensen]

On 12/10/2013 8:27 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Well, I HAVE heard of people going "down" to 10 meters. And 160 meters
> didn't get the name "top band" for being down. But it's been a long, long
> time since anyone I heard spoke in meters.
>
> Been a ham since '52. Maybe it was my interest in the history of "wireless"
> that indoctrinated me.
>
> But I've learned to leave up and down out unless I'm specific about
> wavelength or frequency.

> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:30:01 -0800 (PST), Neal Enault wrote:

> In over 50 yrs of ham radio, I've never heard ANYONE on a lower band say
> they are going down to 10 meters, or 6 meters.  My sentence above points
> right at it.
> I said a LOWER band.  Even the old timers said "I'm going down to 160
> meters."
> Why fight tradition?

In the early days of wireless, it was all wavelength ... "600 meters," 
which sort of made sense because your antenna often determined the 
"frequency" of your transmitter.  Hams were finally relegated to "200 
meters and down."  When vacuum tubes came along, we all began thinking 
more in frequency than wavelength.

The reason we Old Timers think in terms of frequency like everyone else 
is because, despite being old, we're not THAT old.  Those "wavelength" 
OT's are all dead now. :-)

73,

Fred K6DGW
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