DI2AM 505.180 Q5 on ARGO now @ 2143Z
Still very sunlit outside with 5 minutes left till sundown...
Yea 600M, more beacons please.!!. SK6RUD has been much stronger lately on
500.001kc.
Big wire loops are in... I forgot to mention no need for lossy loading
coils as another pro...
Cons anyone??
TNX de Dave @ WD2XSH/17 FN42pb
----- Original Message -----
From: "John P-G" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 4:09 PM
Subject: LF: Grabbers
Hello LF,
I find it strange that the number of grabbers active should be used as a
measure of the conditions and activity levels of the LF bands.
Surely died in the wool "real radio amateurs" - who eschew all operation
except manual telegraphy - should care not a jot if anyone has a grabber
online or not?
If this is the "peak season" for DX then grabbers and other
computerized aids should be superfluous, and the keen DX hunters should
be rattling away on their keys having lots of real QSOs, not surfing
the internet looking at online waterfall screens.
It seems to me that those who run grabbers and suchlike can't win, in
the eyes of the "real CW men".
Those that provide these facilities are generally derided for spoiling
the traditions of aurally received, manually sent, telegraphy with their
computerized appliances.
When these "appliance operators" apply themselves to other areas of
interest, and leave the LF field bereft of grabbers, they are again
derided for removing a useful tool for the "DX hunting CW man".
Talk about double standards!
John GM4SLV
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