AES going under.

[WZ7U]

Where IS that damn "like" button when you need it?

[kb2vxa]

What is it you like, Eddie or the goat?

[WZ7U]

The button. It's always about the button.

[kb2vxa]

Which button?

[WZ7U]

Take both for $200 Alex

[WØTKX]

I wish it had been HRO going under and AES acquiring them.

Had a hard time with HRO- stopped doing business with them.

They have been OK with me personally, but I've witnessed some "you're too stupid" behavior to newbs in the past.

Meh, I'm known locally as a "flaming librul". I dig the hobby, but I'm sick and tired of the mean spirited shit.

[KD8TUT]

They have been OK with me personally, but I've witnessed some "you're too stupid" behavior to newbs in the past.

Meh, I'm known locally as a "flaming librul". I dig the hobby, but I'm sick and tired of the mean spirited shit.

They tried to screw me on an order and took over a year to get me a back ordered item. While the guys who worked at AES were usually in a coma and sat like petrified wood- they never tried to screw me.

So for me- it's a net loss... or maybe a big nothing that HRO is picking up parts of them. I stopped doing business with AES and HRO early in my ham career and moved my business to Gigaparts and DX Engineering.

Though I agree with you about "mean spirited shit". Pretty tired of it. Thankfully I've not seem it on the air because I spin the dial when I hear it. Or work exotic digi modes that lids can figure out.

[kb2vxa]

As far as the mean spirited shit goes, until I became a paper ham I listened to HF for more years than I can count and in 1999-2000 operated at K2PG never having any problem with it, that's what a VFO is for. Besides the CW crowd the other one that hasn't a mean spirit in their ghostly forms are the AM Gangstas. Not only that, they're not only a very cool bunch, but many are engineers and every one really knows his stuff. They're on the extreme opposite end of the scale from those plug n' play hams that can't fathom 496/f(MHz).

That having been said, there are those digi modes the lids can't figure out in movie soundtracks too. I'm sure that you like I have been hearing RTTY for many years, but there are two new kids on the block, have you heard Olivia or Piccolo yet?

[KD8TUT]

As far as the mean spirited shit goes, until I became a paper ham I listened to HF for more years than I can count and in 1999-2000 operated at K2PG never having any problem with it, that's what a VFO is for. Besides the CW crowd the other one that hasn't a mean spirit in their ghostly forms are the AM Gangstas. Not only that, they're not only a very cool bunch, but many are engineers and every one really knows his stuff. They're on the extreme opposite end of the scale from those plug n' play hams that can't fathom 496/f(MHz).

That having been said, there are those digi modes the lids can't figure out in movie soundtracks too. I'm sure that you like I have been hearing RTTY for many years, but there are two new kids on the block, have you heard Olivia or Piccolo yet?

I run weak signal Olivia almost exclusively. Made two NZ contacts in the last 12 months with 25w.

Running a very exotic audio chain with adaptive predistortion with multiple softwares for encode/decode.

Could care less about RTTY.

[WØTKX]

Olivia seems to be popular with folks that like to have a conversation. Same with the SKCC CW folks.

And AM, hell yea. I get lots of compliments on my presumed "plate modulated audio".

Then I tell 'em I'm running a Flex 3000. Lulz.