[CQ-Contest] prejudicial language

[Jeff Maass]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cq-contest at contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-cq-contest at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bill Coleman
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:58 PM
> To: Joe Subich, K4IK; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] prejudicial language
>
>
> On 8/18/01 9:57 AM, Joe Subich, K4IK at w8ik at subich.com wrote:
>
> >As I have maintained for more than fifteen years, the Commission should
> >put a regulatory fence at 1855 ... such a division leaves plenty of room
> >for both wide and narrow modes (other than for those too lazy to do the
> >necessary antenna work).  Even during SSB contests the very top end of
> >the band is nearly unused.
>
> Such a fence would be completely unfair to SSB operations on 160m. Most
> countries do not have frequency allocations above 1850 kHz. By placing
> SSB operators above the allocation of most countries, you've effectively
> removed any chance of an SSB operator working a DX station.
>

The same can be said of 40 meter SSB, but plenty of SSB DX  gets
worked on 40 meters.

Split operation is the answer.

 Jeff Maass       jmaass at columbus.rr.com     Located near Columbus Ohio
         USPSA # L-1192       NROI/CRO    Amateur Radio K8ND
    Maass' IPSC Resources Page:  http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass
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>


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