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Re: Topband: Nice QRPP QSO

To: wa8jxm@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Nice QRPP QSO
From: w7dra@juno.com
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:36:15 -0800
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I have an 1825 crystal so that is where i usually hang out, with a
vairied power level depending upon which final in use: 833a, 211, or 6V6.

mike w7dra

 
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:52:05 -0500 Ken <wa8jxm@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> On Dec 11, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
> 
> > One bit of advice, though: save yourself a LOT of potential grief, 
> & limit operations between 1800- & 1810-KHz, i.e. the extreme bottom 
> 10-KHz of the band. Apart from the W1AW code practice sessions 
> there, that part of the band is usually unoccupied. If you call CQ 
> QRP anywhere from about 1812- to 1835-KHz, you could well incur the 
> wrath of the DX crowd hunting their quarry therein...! Be 
> forewarned...
> 
> The Ham world needs to get their act together!     Not complaining 
> about your advice Eddy, but just yesterday I found the IARU 
> recommended 160m bandplan (dated October 2010):
> 
> 1800-1810   digi modes
> 1810-1830   CW
> 1812            QRP
> 1830-1840   DX window
> 
> Isn't it nice that the amateur radio bureaucrats are totally 
> disconnected from reality?
> 
> I try to be cooperative but in truth I can't figure out where in the 
> heck I should operate on 160 with casual CW operation.  I usually 
> hang around 1836-38 for digital (Contestia, Olivia, Thor).  
> 
> 73, Ken WA8JXM
> 
> 
> 
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