[Yaesu] Re: 60 meters on new rigs

Fri, 4 Jul 2003 08:51:52 -0400

A view from the southeast on July 4th...
So far 60m sounds JUST like 75m - a bunch of guys who go on forever about 
trivia and never invite anyone else to join them.
Frequency hogs are setting the precedent for what 60m will be like for the=
 future. 
It's a pity they are not accustomed to sharing, like polite ops will do on=
 2m FM 
where repeater time is usually respected,
since others may be waiting to use it.
All I hear so far on 60m is the expected "ratchet jaw-ing."
They have 35 less channels, but I almost expect them to say, 
"come on, come on good buddy!"
On 3 Jul 2003 at 23:10, [email protected] wrote:
> Yeah, most hams are not MARS either :) (I used to be active in CAP and
> Mars on VHF...never operated the HF freqs) It WILL be interesting....
> pity we didnt get a "band segment" instead....(Was also looking to
> some Lowfer allocations...but nnnnnnnOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! ;)
>> Chris
> WB5ITT
>> "Bruce D. McLaughlin" wrote:
> > 
> > Actually AF Mars (and the other MARS services) have always operated
> > on discrete frequencies with tightly controlled frequency
> > tolerances. The older tube type rigs often hard a hard time finding
> > and staying on frequency but the modern, solid state radios with
> > decent TXCOs seem to do very well. I will say that as hams we are
> > used to tuning off frequency to avoid QRM. That is not possible on
> > the MARS frequencies and will not be possible on 60 meters. It may
> > be quite frustrating.
> > 
> > Bruce - W8FU
> >
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