When I tune around mobile on 20 meters for CW during a weekday, there is seldom
anything below 14.050. On the weekends, it is a different ballgame. Maybe it
would be good for phone contests to allow contacts in the old phone bands only.
73, Keith NM5G
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From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Chuck
Dietz
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 7:38 AM
To: Radio K0HB <kzerohb@gmail.com>
Cc: GC <greg@k9ig.com>; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A US Petition to remove CW only subbands
I think the CW only portions of the band were welcomed in the "Old Days" of AM
phone. There were huge numbers of US stations on AM causing a huge cacophony of
strong carriers and, if they were not limited to what was
called: "the US phone band," no one would have been able to work DX. Now this
is not a factor and I am one to believe that our government should not limit us
to lesser privileges than citizens of other countries have without good reason.
However, since we are basically "no code" now, I would agree with the bottom
100 KHz of each band being CW only so that SSB doesn't squeeze CW out of
existence.
Chuck W5PR
Just a boy and his radio
and amp and stacked monobanders...
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are only 2 band segments which are exclusively CW. Neither is on HF.
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 22:22 GC <greg@k9ig.com> wrote:
>
> > I just saw this today. This could make CW contests interesting in
> > the
> US.
> > "Petition for Rule Making (RM-11769), filed on May 2. Arguing that
> > retaining the current regime of “legacy” CW subbands has proven to
> > be grossly inefficient, Whedbee (N0ECN)said he’d like to see the FCC
> > delete all privilege restrictions that limit any part of the Amateur
> > Radio spectrum to Morse code to the exclusion of other modes."
> > Missouri Radio Amateur Petitions FCC to Designate “Symbol Communication”
> > Subbands
> >
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> > Missouri Radio Amateur Petitions FCC to Designate “Symbol Communication”
> > Subbands
> > The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association
> > for amateur radio, connecting hams around the... | |
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> > GregK9IG
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