We took a huge beating on the RTTY net last Saturday with digital stations on 7087, the annoying thing is that some of these digital hacks don’t bother to see if a frequency is in use or not but just transmit at random. Fortunately with good filters in the TU and by stomping on them with high power they tend to be only a small annoyance. Cant say the same thing about the 7296 USB net being we had a AM station on from the mid-west that was running a high power Globe King on 7295  that resulted in a huge problem for me in trying to copy that net. Can often copy the net when the AM stations are on 7290 but this guy was at least 10 KC wide. Will say that the AM station in Ohio had a hell of a good signal that was twenty over at my QTH and it was Hi-Fi sounding.

Ray F/KA3EKH

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jeep Platt
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2023 9:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MRCA] Orlando comments

Ray may have hit on something....  Out with the old, in with the new.  During a band-opening pile-up on 20 meters a week or so ago, after I got through to the difficult African station. I was still on frequency and heard a W9 announce to the DX that he was running an old TS-520.  I guess that does not comport with the "new thinking"....... maybe.

Jeep K3HVG

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