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Steve - WB3HUZ
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« Reply #50 on: March 18, 2007, 03:56:35 PM »

The effects of the ARRL brainwashing can still be seen and heard today. I heard a couple idiot slopbuckets (sorry that's redundant) P&Ming about AMers the other night. One claimed that all AMers are stuck in the past. Quite an interesting statement made by someone using a mode invented in 1920!
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K1MVP
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« Reply #51 on: March 18, 2007, 05:59:43 PM »



If SSB had simply appeared as an alternative to AM, without the self-righteous campaign to force the change, the division of the modes would have freely evolved to about what it is now with most users of each mode respecting the other.  SSB would be the mode of choice for DX and weak signal operating, contesting, traffic handling and net operations, but AM would have remained an option for more laid back ragchew type of QSO's, audio and vintage equipment enthusiasts and homebrew artists, and many phone operators would have continued to use both modes.  The infamous AM vs SSB wars of the 1960's would never have occurred.
 

Don,
I do not recall being "forced" to change to SSB(from AM) back then in the late 60`s,--
It just seemed to make sense to get a sideband rig that was lighter, more compact
and much more efficient(less bandwidth) and more "punch" per watt out.

I also do not recall all these "infamous" AM vs SSB wars you speak of, that you
say occurred back then.

True,--there were some who preferred AM over SSB, but my attitude back then,
was,--that was their choice,--just like many who preferred cw, my attitude was
"whatever floats your boat".
                                           73, K1MVP 
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« Reply #52 on: March 18, 2007, 08:29:12 PM »

I do not recall being "forced" to change to SSB(from AM) back then in the late 60`s,--
It just seemed to make sense to get a sideband rig that was lighter, more compact
and much more efficient(less bandwidth) and more "punch" per watt out.

I also do not recall all these "infamous" AM vs SSB wars you speak of, that you
say occurred back then.

It was largely over by the late 60's.  Did you ever listen on the ham bands between about 1963 and 1966, particularly on 75m?
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Steve - WB3HUZ
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« Reply #53 on: March 18, 2007, 08:54:13 PM »

Talk to 2ZM and he'll tell you all about the "Wars." DUQ too and some others. It was real.
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K1MVP
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« Reply #54 on: March 18, 2007, 10:44:47 PM »

It was largely over by the late 60's.  Did you ever listen on the ham bands between about 1963 and 1966, particularly on 75m?

I was on AM between mid 1960 and 1966,--had a Viking II, and a DX-100
and a Globe King in 1966.

I did get on 75 meters, but my favorite bands were 40 and 20 back then.
I do remember W2OY,--most guys did "steer away" from him as I recall.

In 67, I was out West working for Boeing in Seattle,--and from 68 through
70, I was working in Colorado for HP, and only got on 20 meter sideband,
once in a while.

After that,--I came back to Vt, met my XYL, and did mostly qrp cw work,
until 95 when I found an old DX-40 and got back on AM.
So,--I may have very well  missed most of the "mayhem"  during those years on 75,
as 75 was not my favorite band, and still is not even nowadays.

                                      73, K1MVP

P.S, sounds like I did not miss much on 75 back then, although I do know many
friends(hams) who also do not care about 75, to this day.


                             
   
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