Hissy fit. AM vs Ssb

[Terry778]

You don't need to be a ham to get a account on qrz

Re-read my comment, my account has been removed for whatever reason!

 

[Terry778]

There are lots of unlicensed operators on qrz.com. Accounts are deleted usually only if you are a dick and from the usual dicks there, you have to be a REAL bad dick to get dumped.

Yeah whatever, I haven't had any kind of confrontations with anybody there, so maybe there's dicks running it!

 

[GlocknSpiel]

Oh I have used the reviews there too in the past to get a general idea of any faults that may be an issue but as far as general use, most reviews are like travel reviews.........all over the place. Some think it is the greatest thing on earth, while others detest their very existence and wonder why it was ever brought to market. Simply saying that you like it or that this antenna outperformed your last antenna does not really tell much without all the info.There are a few guys that give decent honest reviews but they tend to be the older types that were heavily into electronics repair, commercial broadcast engineers etc. The rest is the old Ford/Chev type arguments.

There isn't a better one that I can find either, including "Consumer Reports", pertaining to radio stuff. But it would be nice if there was.

 

[Crawdad]

I hate to burst your bubbles gentlemen but there are hissy, pissy fits in every RF-related forum out there, including THIS ONE. It's just human nature. The trick is to wade through the BS to find the useful information, IMO. There is usually a voice of reason and knowledge in every thread that genuinely wants to answer the OP's question without being a chest-thumper, they just share their knowledge. The rest is just background noise.

QRZ was designed around licensed operators and IMO is a great website, which I pay to support, just like I do here. It's a helluva lot more than just a forum. But just like this place it's full of humans and their nature. So you get hissy fits, again just like here.

Are there reviews of anything, anywhere that shouldn't be taken with a grain of salt?? Or a sack of salt?? But frankly review of ham-related stuff is all but non-existent on WWDX (yes, there is a forum here for that), so eHam is about the only choice. You just have to plow through the reviews written by the obviously-helpless to get to the useful info.

This is not a WWDX bash, just an opinion. I've been a member here for a while and like it here very much and help to support it (and to get rid of the annoying as f**k ads).

Somebody, somewhere once said something about glass houses.....

And besides, everyone already knows that AM sucks........

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[Riverman]

QRZ was designed around licensed operators and IMO is a great website, which I pay to support, just like I do here. It's a helluva lot more than just a forum. But just like this place it's full of humans and their nature. So you get hissy fits, again just like here.

 

[Riverman]

Are there reviews of anything, anywhere that shouldn't be taken with a grain of salt?? Or a sack of salt?? But frankly review of ham-related stuff is all but non-existent on WWDX (yes, there is a forum here for that), so eHam is about the only choice. You just have to plow through the reviews written by the obviously-helpless to get to the useful info.

 

[AudioShockwav]

Ok this is not getting any better, let's just let it fade away.......

73
Jeff

 

[BJ radionut]

everyone knows that AM sucks....... . ​

And if your antenna does not come down during the first major storm...IT WAS NOT HIGH ENUF!!