[Elecraft] High End Operators?

[Charlie T, K3ICH]

I always wondered why there even WAS an 11 M ham band.  Surely the
propagation characteristics were no different for 10 M as to warrant it's
use.
Plus, 10 is wide enough (1.7 MHz) for just about any mode.

I was even more puzzled why it was given to the Citizen's band class since
it is obviously affected each year by sporadic E skip.
'Skip" operation violated the original intent of CB, so why choose a band
that's famous for it.

They HAD a perfectly good "CB" band up above 400 MHz, which would eliminate
almost any possibility of other than line-of-sight communications.

I even have a couple Vocaline transceivers on that band.  They worked, but
if you look inside, you'd wonder how they could with so few parts.

What's then MOST puzzling is the operation on CB channel 6, or 27.025 MHz.
There are stations on there running in excess of 50 kW !  10 kW, is
considered "low" power.
All for the express purpose of winning the "shoot-out" to see who's the
loudest.

Just remember, if you're being heard at 20 dB over S-9 when running a
kilowatt, you'll still be S-5 at 100 milliwatts .

73, Charlie k3ICH



-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Guy
Olinger K2AV
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2016 4:37 PM
To: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Elecraft] High End Operators?

Sigh...

"High End Operators" is an obsolete citizens band radio (CB) pejorative term
I have not heard in a very long time, almost forty years.

The term came about after the 1977 CB expansion from 23 channels to 40. The
first 23 channels allotted, except for channel 23, came from the 1958
conversion of the 11 meter ham band to CB use. Until 1977 all the CB
equipment stopped with channel 23.

"High End Users" became a pejorative for a while after FCC opened channels
24-40 when users would call and make contact on channel 19, and then
transfer to channel 24 and above, deliberately showing up owners of older
equipment who could not follow or listen.

That gradually went away as the newer 40 channel CB sets became common.
Many retained their older 23 channel sets and left them permanently on
channel 19 to listen for emergency road calls, while using the 40 channel
sets for everything else.

I don't know why anyone would want to use (or reuse) that term, "high end
users". Repurposed bullsh*t is still bullsh*t and still stinks the same.

Back in the 70's before modern cell phones, I knew a lot of hams who put CB
sets in their wive's cars, so they would not get stranded without
communication.

My boat anchor Collins 75A3 receiver and Johnson Ranger transmitter have 11
meters on them. Before 1958, 11 meters was shunned by hams in favor of 10
meters. Little surprise the FCC repurposed it.

73, Guy K2AV
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