[CQ-Contest] 14.300 MHz

[Joe Subich, K4IK]

K4XS writes: 

> Maybe I am being naive, but I don't see any problem with 
> leaving 6 kHz free.  

Bill, no sooner do you start carving out a 6 KHz hole (3 KHz 
is enough if they had real receivers and knew how to use them) 
and every crackpot group (including 14,230) will want their 
own 10 KHz wide "clear channel."  

20 meters is a shared resource and any group that does not 
make efficient use of this international resource will get 
run over.  If it isn't a US station getting a little too 
close to that sacred frequency, it will be an XE or LU or 
PY, or G or DL or I or YU or UA or a contester of some other 
nationality looking for a place to call CQ Test on the band. 

To paraphrase N2NL, who would be an expert in this field -  
anybody who goes to sea with only a ham rig on 20 meters 
is asking for trouble.  

As one trained in public safety communications many years 
ago, listening to 14.300 brings to mind the phrase: 
"Keystone Cops." 

73, 

   ... Joe, K4IK