[TVARC] Helicopter Noise 30M

[Frank M]

Well, I have to agree that trashing new modes and new capabilities just does not fit into ham radio.
This is a hobby and new techniques and new processes have been around since the beginning. I remember people putting down SSB.
“Can’t understand them - too hard to tune in - etc etc”. Change is inevitable and can only lead to new and sometimes better things.
However, keep in mind, the old does not really go away. There are still some AM people and SK people. The other night, I had a one hour CW QSO
With a ham from WV - speed about 13wpm and he was using an old Drake transmitter with an old Hallicrafters receiver.
(I did notice some frequency drift!! - probably a bad crystal or bad external vfo!!)
Now where did my Hallicrafters SX-99 and Harvey Wells TBS-50D go??? Have to fire them up along with my special underground antenna.
I think it was called a ground plane antenna.
73’s
Frank
Off to see what is on FT8 and then use my auto CW decoder or auto PSK decoder or ………...


> On Nov 28, 2017, at 6:51 PM, <k2te at juno.com> <k2te at juno.com> wrote:
> 
> Regarding FT8 and the other digital modes:
> 
> Some folks have been trashing the "computer-computer" QSOs that are
> behind the new modes.  Living here in the antenna-challenged environment,
> I think they are a welcome addition to working stations that otherwise
> are not audible on CW and certainly not audible on SSB.  Also they help
> mitigate an unpleasant truth: many of us lose our hearing as we get
> older. (Guilty as charged, your honor.)
> 
> In lieu of whining about the big station you had, you can always hop a
> plane to the Carribean to one of the contest stations during a big
> contest.  Being the only station on from a country is a rush!  (Operated
> J3A 1999-2001 in CQ WW CW.)
> 
> 73 de Ed
> 
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