Straight Key Night - without the key?

[KJ3N]

Ahem. Getting back to our regularly scheduled thread, already diverted in tangent...

If you're going to run phone on SKN, for those who aren't code aficionados, no problem.

But stay in the spirit of SKN.

The whole point is to use an old fashioned key... no paddles, no electronic keyers, and I believe the original intent was no bugs, though I may be wrong on that.

So... a phone version should mean AM. Double sideband full carrier Amplitude Modulated phone. No reduced or suppresed carriers, no single sideband, no FM, no digital voice or VoIP.

IMHO. Of course, I could be wrong.

From what little I've heard of AM on 75m, I could never be that in love with the sound of my own voice. :roll: :bfd:

[WØTKX]

^^ 'Cept fer 'round here.

[N8YX]

From what little I've heard of AM on 75m, I could never be that in love with the sound of my own voice. :roll: :bfd:

The 3872 crowd ('IXT, perhaps?) has the right idea vis an AM net: rapid-fire exchange, monologues discouraged.

It could be made to work.

This is also the way we do it on both 10M FM and AM.

[WØTKX]

I enjoy a regular thang with a bunch of funny old geezers on 3868. While we try not to double, it's considered maximum use of the frequency. VOX and enthusiasm, most mornings. Funny stuff.

A favorite local repeater (recently fixed ) is known as "The Ragchew Repeater, on 145.145. It doubles, get it?

[KJ3N]

... ('IXT, perhaps?) ....

Speaking of someone in love with the sound of their own voice..... :roll: