[CQ-Contest] WW SSB

[Pete Smith]

This subject has been high on ham radio's agenda at ITU conferences at least since WARC 79, and believe it or not, change is coming.  

The following is from http://www.iaru.org/rel030703.html

" The big news for radio amateurs is that there will be a dramatic improvement in the 40-meter band! After weeks of debate and efforts to resolve great differences between numerous proposals, including strong positions for no change, the conference agreed to shift broadcasting stations in Regions 1 and 3 out of the 7100-7200 kHz band and to reallocate the band to the amateur service in those two regions. The allocation in Region 2 of 7000-7300 kHz remains exclusively amateur. The broadcasting band in Regions 1 and 3 will become 7200-7450 kHz and in Region 2, 7300-7400 kHz. The change will take effect on 29 March 2009, less than six years from now -- a relatively short time by ITU standards. 

In Regions 1 and 3 the 7100-7200 kHz band will become exclusively amateur on that date. A footnote containing the names of countries that are mainly in Region 3 and the Arab States makes the band also available to the fixed and mobile services in those countries on a primary basis."

RAC reports, in http://www.rac.ca/~darf/40metre.htm , that there is some risk amateurs may lose 7200-7300 at WARC 2007, but  it's probably too early to be either optimistic or pessimistic about that.  


73, Pete N4ZR

At 12:30 AM 11/1/2005, N5IET Bob wrote:
>> 40m needs more space. Tell your ITU representative we
>need 7000-7300  
>> worldwide. Then maybe CW won't get crowded out.
>> 
>
>Is this a sincere statement and if so how do you find out
>who your ITU representative is. I wouldn't mind contacting
>them if that is truly an option.
>
>If your joking then the jokes on me, but if your serious I
>didn't know we had one to contact.
>
> 73 fer nw,
>Bob N5IET
>
>10X# 37210, FP#-1141, SMIRK#-5177
>http://www.n5iet.com/
>Code may be taking a back seat for now,
>but the pioneering spirit that put the code
>there in the first place is out front of it all.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
>> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>Bill Coleman
>> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:23 PM
>> To: Alan Leith
>> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WW SSB
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 30, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Alan Leith wrote:
>> > Two things bothered me about this weekend's CQWWDX SSB
>contest:
>> >
>> > 1.  The flagrant use by US stations listening down on
>40M, 
>> Canadians 
>> > between 7000 and 7050 and Europeans and South
>Americans using the
>> > bottom
>> > end of 40M on SSB.
>> 
>> Make 40m bigger, worldwide. Problem solved. Contact the
>ITU.
>> 
>> > 2.  The useless spots on packet for Europeans.  Packet
>was moving
>> > so fast,
>> > most of the time, I couldn't keep up with all the
>crappy 
>> spots.  I,  
>> > for
>> > one, didn't need to see a spot for an overpowered
>European contest  
>> > station
>> > that was 40 over.  I won't name the offenders who did
>the spotting  
>> > but I
>> > think they should have known better.
>> 
>> Useless to you, maybe, but not to everyone. At M/M and
>M/S stations,  
>> we often depend on those "useless" spots to pick up
>extra Qs as well  
>> as mults. We also send a boatload of them, too.
>> 
>> There's plenty of software around to filter out the
>"useless" spots.  
>> If there's a type of spot you don't want to see, filter
>it 
>> out. Don't  
>> expect everyone around the world to do your filtering
>for you.
>> 
>> > I know that Canada, and perhaps many other countries,
>don't have
>> > sub bands
>> > but enough is enough.  Granted, the bands are crowded
>but 
>> for goodness
>> > sake, don't squeeze out those of us who like CW.
>> 
>> CW will have it's opportunity to squeeze out SSB in
>about four  
>> weekends. And it will.
>> 
>> The reality is that MOST countries do not have subbands.
>Almost none  
>> have subbands as restrictive as the USA. The USA is the
>exception,  
>> not the rule.
>> 
>> > I spent a lot of time listening this weekend, even
>made a couple of 
>> > QSOs, and I really didn't like a lot of what I heard,
>especially on
>> > 40M.
>> 
>> 40m needs more space. Tell your ITU representative we
>need 7000-7300  
>> worldwide. Then maybe CW won't get crowded out.
>> 
>> George William Coleman              mail:
>aa4lr at arrl.net
>> Senior Software Developer           phone: 770 978-0196
>> 
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