Frequency Designations, Monitoring Experiences, & Controversy Re: [MilCom] MAGNUM & CHEAPSUIT

[Ken]

Hello Bill & the group:

Hmmm..

Nothing controversial to me..   Basically just looked at the pictures 
referenced by
Steve & stated what MY monitoring experience has been - I'm sure others have
different experiences.

BTW this entire subject came up because of what was published in a nation 
wide
hobby magazine..  Frankly I'm not at war with Steve D/Pop'Comm nor am I
trying to push any special agenda that is favorable to anyone.
 With close to 1000 people on this list perhaps others
could state what their experience is with this.. Might find that the 
designators
are actually used over a much wider area/flying unit(s) specific than 
portrayed by
Larry VH in "Monitoring Times" magazine who's experience shows that these
designators aren't commonly used.

Hobbyists on this list who read these posts & also buy the various national
distributed communications hobby magazines will have to judge for themselves
what's the pros & cons of each magazine is..  Surely PC & MT meet a
need because they've been around for 20+ years!!!!  However, again I do
think at this point in time that "Monitoring Times" magazine provides the 
most factual information
in the milcom/milair subject area that hobbyist can "readily use" to further
their enjoyment of the hobby!

Also this list tends to get boring at times.  Basically the same people 
posting
the same information..  Sometimes the list needs a little controversy... I'm
amazed at some of the folks who "surface" every time there's
a controversy that erupts!!  Too bad most of them won't take the time
to at least post some of their monitoring results/loggings on a monthly
summary basis to this list.

You can't please everyone all of the time! Especially on this list!

Ken



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <wejones at megalink.net>
To: <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [MilCom] MAGNUM & CHEAPSUIT

Ken said:

>> I'm sure the challenge in a nationwide magazine column is to present
>> information that will be
>> interesting & useful to a nationwide reader base.
>
Bill said:
> I'm not quite sure what the point is here.  The original topic here had
> nothing to do with a national magazine or some challenge with specific 
> rules.
> My understanding of the original question was not that these names for
> frequencies were used nationwide, but that they were used at all, and as 
> far
> as I am concerned, that question has been answered.  They ARE used, and 
> they
> are used in New England.  Do all pilots or units use these terms, 
> obviously
> not.  Do some units use these terms? Obviously they do, and I think that 
> was
> the original point here.
>     The thing that confuses me is why this topic seems to generate such
> controversy.
>
>
>
> Bill Jones         N3JLQ
> Sweden Maine
> wejones at megalink.net
> http://www.megalink.net/~wejones