Even 20m follows the same pattern now. No big deal
but this time there was stations down to 14098, only
2 kHz outside but this was a first for me atleast.
Bill Coleman wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2005, at 2:40 AM, LA5HE Ragnar Otterstad wrote:
>
>
>>I came on 40 m this morning, only to find several phone stations as
>>low as
>>7012 !
>
>
> The lowest I heard was SV1CVY, who was at 7000.5, which, in my book,
> is out of band. He was calling CQ.
>
There was plenty activety in the 7000-7010 slot.
>
>
>>It is very disappointing that so many phone contesters show no
>>respect for
>>the IARU bandplan ! What a nuisance !
>
Yes but it could have been fixed. Over 15 years ago I had ideas
about how it could have been fixed, I wrote about it on the reflector
also, at that point it wasn´t as bad as it is today. However
nobody did do anything.
>
>
> Yeah, it's easy to just complain about this, but think about the
> entire situation.
>
> There's currently only 100 kHz of band in regions 1 and 3. During a
> contest, everyone wants a frequency -- hundreds, if not thousands of
>
>
This is like saying, if you are out driveing your car and there is too
much traffic on the narrow road and due to that you can´t go fast enough,
use the area the pedestrians use even if you will run over a few.
73 SM2EKM
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