🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1h0np7INNrf9@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <160009@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
>>
>>Please refrain from it unless you operate with the SPAM group at the 
>>high end of the 40 meter wavelength. (SPAM= society for the preservation
>>of amplitude modulation).                     
>
>Are you implying that there is something wrong with amplitude modulation?
>Me and my 1938 vintage Crosley plate-modulated 2KW BC transmitter have a 
>bone to pick with you.
>
>SSB means group delay across the audio spectrum due to cheap brickwall
>filters.  SSB means nonlinear amplitude response due to errors in detection,
>and floating frequency shifts up and down the audio band.  I hope your next
>QSO is so distorted that you can't even get the full call from the other
>guy, just some exotic, tantalizing prefix.  Maybe that will teach you that
>amplitude modulation is the way to go for any serious work (or DSBSC if
>you mind losing a little power on your carrier.  I don't care about a
>bit more power, since my electric bills are high enough).
>
>May you be sentenced to an eternity in hell with roundworms and a 
>misaligned Heathkit HW-101.

I think it's time to bring back spark gap transmitters.  Due to the fact
that my great grandfather was a patent attorney way back when, I have lots
of vintage how to books on spark gap technology.

And I probably have the parts in my basement.

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Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP