----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Bryant" <w4nz@comcast.net>
> After seeing N7MAL's posting, I got to thinking about this window. The
> IARU bandplan for all
> regions show SSB frequencies available well below the US allocation. With
> the "foreign-only" phone
> band just 40kHz below, starting at 3750, I'm not sure I understand the
> purpose of this window. If it
> is to get the DX in the clear, there is plenty of room below 3750 (for
> now). Surely it isn't simply
> because they don't want to operate "split"??
I had a real problem with all those Sweepstakes CW operators.
I was looking for a few quiet ragchews on 40 metres on Sunday night before
starting another busy working week. But I couldn't because the band was
full of strong Sweepstakes signals from North America. I can't operate
Sweepstakes because I don't live in North America. And I can't operate WARC
bands, because even 30 metres is gone to Southern locations by 1930 or so
this far North at this time of year.
So I sat and listened to Sweepstakes stations. I listened to VO1HE run a
nice Sunday afternoon pileup. I listened to stations from the Rocky
Mountain states at S6 or S7 well before their sunset and wondered where they
were the rest of the week.
Actually, it was a lot of fun. The day I stop having fun is the day I stop
ham radio. But then maybe I'm not an old man who gets his kicks out of
being bitter and twisted.
If I get to 60 (31 years to go and counting) and turn out as bitter and
twisted as some radio amateurs, do me a favour and shoot me.
73
Gerry G0RTN
Vanity Page at http://www.gerrylynch.co.uk
"In days of old, when ops were bold, and sidebands not invented,
The word would pass, by pounding brass, and all were well contented."
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