[Milsurplus] QRMing the MilRadio Net

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>

> There is today negligible serious purpose to ham activity, so there should be no justification for
self-appointed mode vigilantes to rankle and react when they hear the older modes on their precious
bands.

-Yes indeed.
The SSB in-crowd may laff at AM, but they are in the dark if they
think SSB HF radio is state of the art.  This is like one era's dinosaurs
laffing about the almost extinct  lifeforms of the  previous era.
Ignorance.

>AM should be perfectly OK anywhere (outside the rapidly shrinking Morse sub-bands, of course).  For
that matter, I'd like a small *legal* sub-band on 21 MHz for wide FM from such famous old gear like
the SCR-508, SCR-609, or RT-66/GRC.  I'd even like a special (but limited) time and band window
allocated for damped-wave Morse (spark).  The demonstration on a limited basis of these old
historical modes would certainly be less disrupting than BPL.

-Amen that. Would it not be a real kick to hear, some winter night
on an otherwise depopulated LF band, a weather broadcast via
a spark or arc transmitter?  ( Extra output filtering if necessary to
minimize higher harmonics? )  Maybe a re-creation of Fessenden's
first historic "broadcast" ?
I understand in Nederlands, the authority allows use of specified
non-hamband frequencies during some mil-vehicle get-togethers.
Imagine that. Where's the harm?
-Hue Miller KA7LXY