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Equipment / Re: MFJ is closing down
« on: August 22, 2024, 1312 UTC »
MFJ will be missed. They have/had good Introductory Ham Equipment for those on a budget.
I concur. 75 meters used to be a wasteland of drunken obscenity and arguing (worse than 7200 kc now) until the FCC got fed up and swung their big stick. I started with CB (~'70), was Novice Licensed in '76, and still a Tech when the FCC opened up 28300 - 28500 to Techs for SSB. Many old timers (including our local club president) were ranting about how No Code 10 meters was going to become just an extension of CB. THEN many became enamored with getting on 10m and enjoying the enthusiasm of us Tech's. If it wasn't for this I'd probably never upgraded to Extra.
73 mike
I just have to laugh every time I hear this code "argument".
I used to copy some of the most FOUL mouthed operators and drunk jammers WAY back in the 60's, when there was a CODE requirement. There was a BIG clique of these attention hungry clowns on 3885 AM.
I concur. 75 meters used to be a wasteland of drunken obscenity and arguing (worse than 7200 kc now) until the FCC got fed up and swung their big stick. I started with CB (~'70), was Novice Licensed in '76, and still a Tech when the FCC opened up 28300 - 28500 to Techs for SSB. Many old timers (including our local club president) were ranting about how No Code 10 meters was going to become just an extension of CB. THEN many became enamored with getting on 10m and enjoying the enthusiasm of us Tech's. If it wasn't for this I'd probably never upgraded to Extra.
73 mike
