[CQ-Contest] prejudicial language

[Bill Coleman]

On 8/24/01 4:15 PM, Joe Subich, K4IK at w8ik at subich.com wrote:

>Such a fence is not unfair ... it is identical to the situation 
>on 75 and 40 meters.  The DX with overlapping allocations will 
>work transceive when appropriate otherwise split frequency is 
>the rule for SSB DX.  

You obviously haven't spent much time at a 40m operating position in a 
SSB DX contest. 

The most frustrating thing is to have a DX station you can hear clearly, 
whom you know you have excellent propagation to, and could work easily -- 
yet you can't because he's working simplex, and not listening split. Grrr.

>If split frequency removes any chance of an SSB operator working 
>a DX station, how do you account for all the SSB DX worked on 
>40 and 75?  

If you check the 40m results for any DX contest on both CW and SSB, 
you'll find the numbers for SSB are 1/2 to 1/6 that for CW for US 
stations.

Clearly the propagation is there.

On 75m, simplex operation IS possible from 3750-3800 kHz.

>The only thing split frequency does is removing the 
>chance for SSB operators to "work" DX on a net.  

A net is the ONE place where a split frequency might actually work.

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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