> What really needs to be made clear is the rattiers need to stay
> as far above 7025 as possible. There is simply no reason at all why
> they should go below that frequency, let alone clear down to 7015,
> as I heard several loud ones do this past weekend.
That's about as likely as keeping all the CW below 14065 during
SSCW, ARRL DX CW and CQWW CW or keeping contest phone operators away
from 14.230, 7255/7258, 14.300+/-, etc. during SS Phone, CQWW SSB,
ARRL DX SSB, etc.
These are major international RTTY contests and activity will spread
as needed to find room and avoid other contest QRM. RTTY contest
activity has probably increased by at least ten fold in the last
ten years. What new blood there is in contesting is much more
familiar with computers than CW and the trend will only continue
to accelerate.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Harrison [mailto:k0xp@dandy.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 11:23 PM
> To: Joe Subich, W4TV; cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] TQP vs CQ RTTY
>
>
> At 09:46 AM 10/1/2007 -0400, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> >
> >Steve writes:
> >
> >> It would be far better and easier for all concerned if the
> >> rattiers simply stayed up the band as they used to.
> >
> >International RTTY never stayed "up the band."
>
> I certainly do not remember, in the 42 years I've been
> contesting, EVER
> consistently hearing, throughout a weekend, ratty below 7035,
> let alone all
> the way down into the Extra class CW band. NEVER.
>
> In fact, I never even knew there might be a ratty contest
> going on, until
> the last several years, and ESPECIALLY since the dang FCC did its
> fumbly-diddle earlier this year.
>
> >> This would be easy for the ratty contest sponsors to control:
> >> simply list subband limits for their contes in their rules.
> >
> >That is not possible. The "RTTY" band for Regions 1 and 3
> >*IS* 7040 +/- activity. Centering RTTY activity on 7070 is
> >simply not possible in most areas until the rest of the
> >world gets access to 7000-7100 and Regions 1/3 update their
> >bandplans. Even then, I doubt you will see much movement
> >relieve the pressure around 7040 although it may help some
> >between 7025 and 7035.
>
> What really needs to be made clear is the rattiers need to stay as far
> above 7025 as possible. There is simply no reason at all why
> they should go
> below that frequency, let alone clear down to 7015, as I
> heard several loud
> ones do this past weekend.
>
> Steve, K0XP
>
>
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