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At 06:46 96-11-15 -0600, Craig Clark wrote:
>
>I have looked and can't find my official copy of the ARRL band plan.
>Off the top of my head however, they allocated the band:
>
>1800-1830 cw local rag chews etc
>1830-1850 cw DX/use
>1850 and up SSB
>
>I will not get into the other dynamics of this. My position on this
>band plan is fairly well known.
>
>73 Craig
>
Mine added:
>>The "Considerate Operator's Frequency Guide," QST page 104
for Jan 96 lists the following:
>>1.800-1.830 CW, data and other narrowband modes
1.810 QRP CW calling frequency
>>1.830-1.840 CW, data and other narrowband modes,
intercontinental QSOs only
>>1.840-1.850 CW; SSB, SSTV and other wideband modes,
intercontinental QSOs only
>>1.850-2.000 CW; phone, SSTV and other wideband modes
1.910 QRP SSB calling frequency
>>I once commented on 1.910kHz SSB calling frequency on
>>this reflector in disgust.
>>de Mine JA2NQG AH0F KC6CW VK9LS V63WW etc
Part of the problem is the ARRL. Unless the QRP calling frequency is
moved up to around 1920, there will always be people thinking they are
properly using low power SSB on/near 1910. The only good thing about
the JA window was the FW DXpedition listening 1909-1911 for US/VE DX
which clued in some of the SSBers to the DX activity around those
frequencies before local sunrise.
Years ago someone else actually published a data communications
recommendation for 1825-1830. Amtor on 1827 didn't thrill the midwest
DXers. Fortunately, one of the Chicagoland DXers had Amtor capability
and was able to explain the error in the guideline to the two or three
hams and the problem went away. We were all lucky the guideline was
not repeated, and the digital hams were able to move up or down.
One other thought: Don't bother the morning SSB around 1819. Those
fellows have been there for years and have relocated voluntarily after
a very heated winter a year or two ago. Having them on 1824 was bad
enough. When the JA's started sending QSX 1824 instead of QSX 1808 or
1810, there were some very heated moments and plenty of SSB ragchew
activity between 1820 and 1830 during morning sunrise DX openings!
In summary, everyone can work around the problems, if we will just
think ahead and tune the band before we jump in somewhere.
Now, if the band would only open up next weekend, we might get a
couple of new ones.
73 all, George K8GG
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