[CQ-Contest] 160m DX window dead?

[Richard L. King]

At 13:42 8/16/01 -0400, you wrote:
>At 04:04 PM 8/16/2001 +0000, Richard L. King wrote:
> >Bill/W4ZV has already forgotten what it is like to work the ARRL 160M 
> Contest and other 160M contests from west of the Mississippi.
>
>Read the last couple of messages about 160 again.   The bandplan won't 
>specify a DX window for general operating but the 160m Band Plan Committee 
>did recommend that DX Windows in contests (like ARRL and CQ 160m) should 
>continue.

Thanks for clarifying that for me Tom.

It seemed that Bill's post was talking mainly about 160M Contests so I 
thought there was some relevance there.

Outside the 160M contests the DX window isn't as big a factor towards 
working DX. No more than the 75 SSB DX window has been on 75 meters.

Actually the entire band plan will all be ignored by many unless the FCC 
makes it mandatory. I suppose that's where the committee is taking this.

My only concern outside of the contests is that CW DXers have an area on 
160M where they can work CW DX without a SSB roundtable on the frequency. 
We suffered through that situation here in Texas for many years with a 
local group camped on 1823 KHz at our sunrise. But, oddly enough, this SSB 
roundtable disappeared or QSYed this past winter. I sure hope they don't 
come back.

73, Richard

k5na at texas.net


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