"Hank Oredson" wrote in message
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"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
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Caveat Lector wrote:
There is this to understand

All of the below is old hat and has been going on for a long time -- 30
years that I know of.
No worse now as compared to then.

I would disagree with that assessment.

There are a lot of things in ham radio that aren't worse than they were
30 years ago. But this isn't one of them.

I got my license in 1973 and I clearly remember a day when if you would
listen, you could almost always find the guy the DX was working. Yeah,
there were plenty of people who didn't know that - who would just pick a
transmit frequency at random & just call there - but they didn't call
continuously *every time* the DX stopped transmitting.

And WHILE the DX is transmitting ...

Indeed, while I hate to join the "I hate packet" bandwagon there really
does seem to be a correlation between continuous calling and the
explosive growth of spotting nets.

Used to use things like the telephone and of course 10M AM.
The local group tended to monitor 28.7.

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... Hank

http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson
http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli


And in the past, many DX clubs set up DX spotting repeaters on 2M -- some
with 200 members
Also 2M simplex
And prior to that folks gave a one ringer landline call to their DX buddies
as u sed.
An before the clusters, avid DXers subscribed to DX newsletters to "spot"
the DX
Ala The West Coast DX Bulletin by Hugh Cassidy WA6AUD
Or now a days The Daily DX.

Any difference between these and today's Packet Cluster other than wide
distribution ?????