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oh well

It seems Fred is the topic of controversy in more then one circle of people on 75. He gets a thumbs down from those of us that use the AM window too. Don't get me wrong, I fully understand there is no legal claim to this 20 Khz slice of spectrum for AM only use. What Fred continues to be oblivious or disrespectful to is the fact this tiny bandwidth gives those who work AM barely enough bandwidth to carry out two separate QSO's. Why he jammed his net in the lower section of this spectrum is beyond me.

When he keys on 3.872 it renders 3.875 completely useless in AM receive. It use to be nice to break away from the roundtable on 3.885 to carry out a quick exchange with a smaller group on 3.875. For the last decade Fred has decided it was more important to be on 3.872 every night. Often enduring a ridiculous amount of jamming rather then simply move down band a few KHz like 99% of all other SSB traffic has done out of respect long before his arrival. When was the last time you heard AM traffic below 3.870?

I would agree, but what has happened to Freddy, the Fartloop? I am told he has gone to the Carribean? Long time away.

I have no idea what happened to Fred.

He did do one good thing. Every night you can now hear a lot of great AM guys and gals on that spot. Guess they figured out use it or lose it.

Yes, what did happen to Fred and the Merry Men? Fred makes a very good reason to beware you never check in and keep listening for the Next Erpution from Delmar. Its really quite funny.

But what did happen did Fred get his license pulled?

Fred is not what's important.

What IS important is the people who were sucked into all the Marconi B.S. understand that they have been lied to. Some of you owe apologies to your fellow hams.

It's also important to understand that Fred's operating habits should not be looked upon as acceptable.

Some of the people in this thread who seem the most rabid were actually part of the net a few years back. Think back to when YOU felt Fred was being picked on and tried to help him. Did you do some things based on false information? Now we see some more recent suckers. Put yourself in the other guy's shoes.