I don't think there will or needs to be any change in the phone bands. Both
parts of bands get crowded at times (contests mainly). I think the problems
with phone in the "wrong" places will go away largely after 40M changes.
Just a couple of cents.
73 de Al, KE1FO
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Wanderer
Sent: 3/10/2004 9:49:51 PM
To: CQ-CONTEST@CONTESTING.COM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] CW VS. PHONE
> CW is NOT a sub-band; phone is. CW is allowed everywhere on
> the ham bands below 30MHz; phone is restricted, usually
> starting 100kHz up (and outside of the USA usually by
> gentlemen's agreements [de facto] rather than de jure) and a
> little more for the USA phone band (definitely de jure).
> This was supposedly done in the early days of phone
> operation to keep non-USA stations from being deluged by USA
> stations looking for a DXCC marker as the USA had more
> licensees than other countries and, allegedly, better
> stations (i.e. beams and amplifiers).
>
> It seems to me to be inevitable that the phone sub-bands
> will be expanded by both de facto and de jure procedures.
> Hopefully, as long as there are at least two CW stations on
> the air, the phone sub-bands will not extend below 50~70kHz
> above the bottom edge (allowing room too for the other
> digital modes such as PSK and RTTY).
>
> 73
> Bob AA0CY
>
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