[CQ-Contest] ARRL Phone - 40 m lack of bandplan compliance

[Tom Frenaye]

At 08:24 AM 3/9/2004, ZF2NT wrote:
>While everybody is on this thread of trying to justify SSB down to the
>bottom of 40m, let me offer my own experience from this past weekend.  As a
>QRP station, there was no way I could hold two frequencies to try to run on
>40m.  Thus the only thing I could do was tune up and down the band trying to
>find stations to call.  Practically every single US station I heard was
>listening well below 7040, many down in the range of 7020.  For me here in
>the Cayman Islands, it is a matter of law, not some gentleman's agreement,
>that the lower limit on SSB is 7050.  Likewise, I think I remember from the
>one time I operated in KP4 that the bottom limit BY LAW is 7040.  And I
>wouldn't be surprised to find the same is true of a lot of other IARU R2
>countries.  

Just about every country does NOT regulate subbands.   The USA is unusual in that it does.   Many do have suggested bandplans, or point to IARU bandplans.    

Stations licensed by the US in Region 1 and 3 (like /MM or KH2) can use phone and image on 7050-7100.  In Region 2, stations west of 130W (like KH6) or south of 20S (like KP4) can use 7050-7100 for phone and image.

           -- Tom


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