I just got a reply back from ARRL. Looks like no QSY planned for 160:
Pete,
Here is Dave's answer. It appears that, for the present, there is no longer
a plan to move.
73......Frank...N2FF....
Hi Frank,
Pete isn't quite correct as to what we said when the original QSY was
rescinded:
* W1AW 160-meter frequency change put on hold: QRX on that W1AW QSY! W1AW
has rescinded plans to change its 160-meter CW frequency and will remain on
1817.5 kHz for the time being. An announced change to 1807.5 kHz was aimed
at reducing the possibility of interfering with DX stations that have begun
showing up in the vicinity of 1817.5 kHz. "Lately we have received more
complaints about W1AW interfering with weak DX signals," said ARRL CEO and
W1AW Trustee David Sumner, K1ZZ. "After what we thought was due diligence we
decided that it made sense to shift below 1810 kHz, since that is the lower
band edge in Region 1 and would pretty much eliminate the conflict with
DXers." Monitoring showed that 1807.5 appeared to be generally clear.
"Unfortunately," Sumner continued, "we failed to pick up the fact that PSK31
operators appear to have adopted 1807 kHz as their 160-meter frequency, and
we don't want to conflict with any established activity centers." Under a
tight deadline to announce the W1AW operating schedule 30 days in advance,
the League has called off the frequency shift for now. The question will be
revisited over the summer.
In general, the feedback I heard after this announcement was that our
staying on 1817.5 kHz wasn't that big a problem once we stopped using the
Harris
transmitter and spent a lot of time shaping the keying on the TenTec
transceiver we now use. As you may know, I operate 160 meters quite a bit and
am 17-1/2
miles from W1AW, so the station is quite loud. I don't have a problem
hearing weak DX within 500 Hz of W1AW -- it's just another loud station, and
if
you're DXing on 160 you have to be able to cope with loud stations.
So the bottom line is that at this point, we have not identified a frequency
that would be significantly better than the one we're on.
73,
Dave K1ZZ
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