"A.E. 352" wrote:
This doesn't really pertain to A.E. members, just radio operators in
general. Years ago, there was a 'Gentlemans Agreement' that AM'ers would
operated on channels 30 and BELOW, and us SSB operators would run
channels 31 and ABOVE and things worked out great for all ops. Too bad
this 'agreement' has gone out the window these days! I mean...I've heard
many AM'ers with BIG linears running as high as 27. 805 , with most of
them running between channels 34-40 which is really counter-productive to
any decent SSB DX. I actually talked to a guy tonight on channel 36 AM
and told him that he should try LSB instead. Well, we went there and we
talked for quite awhile. Seems he really didn't know too much about
sideband, but after hearing all of the stations he LOVED it. Oh well...it
seems that I've gotten one guy on track. I only have about a million more
to go!

We get a lot of that here too, especially from truckers.