[CQ-Contest] RE: Aren't M/Ms Annoying?

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Warren <nt5c at texas.net>wrote:

>The big gun M/Ms certainly have the right to hog down to the band 
>edge. But what about hogging BEYOND the band edge?
>
>All weekend in CQWW, a certain well-known M/M was camped on 21200.5, 
>and was of course audible down to 21199 or so. Does anyone care 
>anymore? Sure they were on USB, but isn't it true that no part of our 
>signal is supposed to percolate outside the legal band? I'm sure 
>there must be a technical justification that I'm missing.

If you work on 21200 in USB it is legal, as the lower sideband is removed.
Same with our small european 40m band, if one would follow
your opinion, no one could use 7100 (LSB) which is legal as well and loose one complete speech channel.

73
Peter