ARRL FD & WARC bands

[george fremin iii]

Hi fellow contesters,

I saw a post on here last week (I dont recall who it was from) 
but it said something to the effect that FD was great untill
the ARRL included the WARC bands. 

Anyway as I read this I thought to myself -- I dont think 
that is correct. So I got out my May 1995 QST and looked.
It clearly states that the 10, 18 and 24 Mhz bands are 
not to be used for FD contacts.  It seems that I recall
that the use of the WARC bands came up last year after FD.
I am sure that hams being hams and wanting to use 
their full privilages and favorite bands got on the
WARC bands during FD and made FD contacts - ya cant stop them.
 
But the ARRL rules for the event do exclude these bands. 

-- 

George Fremin III
Austin, Texas C.K.U.                        
WB5VZL
512/416-0140
geoiii at bga.com

>From Rich L. Boyd" <rlboyd at CapAccess.org  Tue May 23 16:38:34 1995
From: Rich L. Boyd" <rlboyd at CapAccess.org (Rich L. Boyd)
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:38:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: New Blood
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9505231132.F24171-8100000 at cap1.capaccess.org>


I started in NR also, then tried SS.  I'd been a ham 27 years before I
belatedly did my first FD.  I came into ham radio through the
individual study route, not the local club route.  Missed a lot of
good cameraderie, etc.

Rich Boyd KE3Q



>From Tom Morrison <t.morrison at liant.com>  Tue May 23 12:29:00 1995
From: Tom Morrison <t.morrison at liant.com> (Tom Morrison)
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:29:00
Subject: Contest results out of QST?
Message-ID: <9505231629.AB10165 at rmc.liant.com>

Rich L. Boyd KE3Q writes:

> We all have a vested interest in the survival of ham radio "as we
> know it."  <stuff deleted>

> K1ZZ at ARRL seems very supportive of contesting.

He had better...several of us still have the negatives!

73, Tom K5TM



Tom Morrison     T.Morrison at liant.com
Relativity  (division of Liant Software)
Phone: 512-719-7019    FAX: 512-719-7070



>From John Dorr K1AR" <p00259 at psilink.com  Tue May 23 18:05:51 1995
From: John Dorr K1AR" <p00259 at psilink.com (John Dorr K1AR)
Date: Tue, 23 May 95 12:05:51 -0500
Subject: KC6VW : WPX CW 95
Message-ID: <3010330833.2.p00259 at psilink.com>

No QSLing to Tosy's QSL manager...hmmm, that's a new twist on using a 
manager.   :)

-John

>DATE:   Tue, 23 May 1995 14:20:20 +0900
>FROM:   Toshiyuki Moriyama <moriyama at civil.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am planning to QRV during WPX CW 95 SOAB HP signing KC6VW.
>QRV on 160m-10m. Especially,160m is 1824.5. QSX 1911 for JAs.
>No WARC, RTTY and diving plan before and after the contest.
>I will concentrate the contest.
>
>All QSLs will automatically send via Buro. Please no direct mail 
>to me or my QSL manager JA6BSM without special reason.
>
>Tosy, JA6VZB/AH0T/KC6VW/V63BM/ZF2TY
>Toshiyuki Moriyama <moriyama at civil.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
>Dept. of Civil Eng., Kyushu-Univ.,
>6-10-1 Hakozaki Higashi-ku,
>Fukuoka-city, 812-81 Japan
>


>From R. Torsten Clay" <torsten at mephisto.physics.uiuc.edu  Tue May 23 19:00:03 1995
From: R. Torsten Clay" <torsten at mephisto.physics.uiuc.edu (R. Torsten Clay)
Date: Tue, 23 May 95 13:00:03 CDT
Subject: ARRL FD & WARC bands
Message-ID: <199505231800.AA18897 at mephisto.physics.uiuc.edu>

A few years ago, WARC band qso's WERE legal for FD...I remember 
while operating N4AR (KY Contest Group) FD, we tried qsying to
18 Mhz for a while, but there was little activity there anyway.
	KCG is another contest club that does a "serious" FD
effort (2A).

Tor
n4ogw at uiuc.edu

...
> that is correct. So I got out my May 1995 QST and looked.
> It clearly states that the 10, 18 and 24 Mhz bands are 
> not to be used for FD contacts.  It seems that I recall
> that the use of the WARC bands came up last year after FD.
> I am sure that hams being hams and wanting to use 
> their full privilages and favorite bands got on the
> WARC bands during FD and made FD contacts - ya cant stop them.
>  
> But the ARRL rules for the event do exclude these bands. 
> 
> -- 
> 
> George Fremin III
> Austin, Texas C.K.U.                        
> WB5VZL
> 512/416-0140
> geoiii at bga.com
>