Very Good ! Where did you get this (or did you make it yourself)? It's SO true!
Made it myself. I'm working on my own "Heavy Metal" station.
I'm dog-tired of SSB Nazis deciding I don't have the same
rights I grant to them. There's no such thing as a
"gentleman's agreement" when there's gentlemen on only one side.
Those who say they don't want a conflict are blind- or worse.
You've got a conflict already, like it or not.
And if you think it's bad here in the U.S., ask our friends
in Australia or Europe about the irrational hatred and
jamming aimed at AMers. That's what happens to
us if we do nothing, trying to "avoid a conflict"
that's already knocking us on the head.
And you can't rely on the FCC to do anything.
Years ago, the SS-B Nazis set up on 3878 with the
specific, openly stated intention of running AM off the air.
People asked the FCC in get involved. Hollingsworth showed
up on the freq. What was the result? Well, 3878 is still there,
full of SSB guys who are now entrenched and have no regard
for anyone trying to work in the "AM-witz" concentration camp.
When the phone band expanded, I and some others tried to
set up an AM window in the Extra section, at 3685 KC.
The band was totally empty for dozens of KCs either side.
We had a few QSOs when here came the SS-B Nazis,
who set up shop on *3683.5* KC (look at that freq again).
Again, they specifically and openly stated they were going to
stop any "AM window" before it could get started.
It wasn't long before their extremely loud signals ran us off.
I tried a few more times; I would listen to the empty 20 KCs
around, then call "CQ" on 3685. Within minutes, the SSBers
would be on, telling each other to warm up the "lean-ers" because
"that AM clown is on again," and saying how they were writing the
FCC about *me* for interfering with *them!* (!?*!)
Appeals for help with this blatent, open and "in your face"
intentional interference were ignored.
Last I looked, they were still occasionally there.
So much for doing things "by the book."
People who do as the above says, hiding from obvious
attack in hopes it will "go away" are not just harming themselves;
they hurt us all. Recently, someone unnamed "agreed"
with some SSB Nazis who wanted to be on *3883* that
"we" would shut down our AM rigs at 6 PM, so they could
have the band when it went long. Well, he's a great guy
but he sure ain't speaking for me. It will be a cooooold day....
We don't have to get in a cuss-fit;
Let me say that again:
An uncivil "jammer war" will be self-destructive
and will not work. Yelling and fighting won't work.
We just need to stop being so agreeable,
stop giving in to SSB Nazi bullies,
and say NO once in awhile.
And the old "no one owns a frequency" guff is a nonsense,
straw-man argument; everyone has to be *somewhere,*
and it's better we all understand who lives where.
We aren't asking for much- 20 or 30 KCs total out
of FOUR HUNDRED is a pretty small slice of the pie.
But they won't respect that. They want it ALL.
"Gentleman's Agreements" have proven to be utterly worthless.
The SSBers have proven they will NOT respect any agreement.
Either build a station that can't be run off the air,
and start saying a polite but FIRM "NO" to interlopers,
or face the fate shown above.
You cannot stop a man from beating you over the head
by handing him flowers. And we are getting beaten bloody, friends.
You will either force this man to respect you, or you can be his dog
and do his bidding, licking his hand for the scraps ( like 3880-witz )
he lets fall from his table. *There is no "middle ground."*
Which are you?
73 Dave AB5S
