[Elecraft] [Bulk] 8 or5 Pole cw filters

[Jim Brown]

On Tue,1/20/2015 11:34 PM, tnnyswy at yahoo.com wrote:
> The level of Snobbery here has crested the previous water mark.

Not snobbery at all. I'm simply trying to save people money by advising 
them not to buy stuff they don't need. Someone who wants to operate on a 
crowded band needs narrow filters. it sounds like you and your friends do.

The contesters I know are up to here with "nets" comprised of operators 
with ancient and el cheapo radios defending the frequencies they "own," 
justifying their "ownership" by calling them traffic nets, or "maritime 
nets" but almost never passing traffic and never checking in anyone on a 
boat, and rarely doing much more than checking in. Now, there's nothing 
wrong with any of that, but it gives those operators no more right to 
the frequency they have selected than the contester who hears an empty 
frequency, asks QRL?, hears nothing, and calls CQ.

I take pride in a very clean and narrow signal. My K3 with power amp has 
a -40 dB SSB bandwidth less than 3.5 kHz. If you want to operate next to 
me, you need to bring a good radio to the party. And I'm not going to 
QSY because you don't. And If I've established a run frequency and 
you've decided it's time for your "net," you can look for an empty 
frequency, just like I had to.

73, Jim K9YC