[CQ-Contest] prejudicial language retorts

[Bill Coleman]

On 8/18/01 11:45 PM, Leigh S. Jones at kr6x at kr6x.com wrote:

>
>First, due to the absence of an exclusive CW segment in the style of
>each of the non-WARC bands 80-10M, greater opportunity exists for
>inter-mode interference on 160M than on those other 5 bands.

There is NO exclusive CW segment on any HF band. 

Read the regulations. The only exclusive CW segments are for 50-50.1 MHz 
and 144-144.1 MHz.

On HF, CW is permitted EVERYWHERE. Digital modes are restricted to the 
lower portions of the band, analog modes are restricted to the upper 
portions of the band. On 160m, all modes are allowed everywhere.

Frankly, I'd like the other HF bands to model 160m. It would certainly 
solve some problems on 40m.

>Second, sufficient bandwidth exists on 160M to accommodate all
>activities if it is utilized.

Agreed. So, why do the thousands of SSB operators have to move to 
accomidate a handful of CW operators on one weekend out of the year? Why 
can the CW operators move for that one weekend?

>Third, contesting can benefit from cooperation with non-contest
>interests on 160M.

Agreed.

>I won't go into that in depth again here, but I hope that a few weeks
>in the future you will have gained a sensitivity to the distinction
>that I am trying to draw between "contests disrupt the band" and
>"contests cause great interference that can disrupt some
>communications."

Don't use "disrupt" or "interference".

Contests just increase activity to higher levels. They make the band 
different. That difference is only a "disruption" if you perceive it to 
be one.

Frankly, I don't see why 160m adovcates don't welcome 160m activity. 
Perhaps those stations who get a taste for 160m SSB will come back later 
to try some 160m CW. Maybe the activity will spur them to put up 
effective 160m antennas.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901


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