[CQ-Contest] SSB in CW band

[Jack Brindle]

Interesting. The expanded phone bands do not exist yet. The FCC's  
report and order has yet to be published in the Federal Register. I  
suggest that US hams stay above the current phone band cutoff  
frequencies!

On Oct 27, 2006, at 10:23 PM, N7MAL wrote:

> I would like to suggest to the CQWWSSB guru's that a cut-off  
> frequency be
> set for 40 meters. I think 7025 and above is more than reasonable  
> for SSB
> operation during the contest. This year is worse than last and has  
> been
> getting progressively worse every year. There have been many pleas  
> in past
> years but they fall on deaf ears at the contest committee. There is  
> plenty
> of unused frequency spectrum above 7025. I checked several times  
> and there
> was no valid reason for any station to operate below 7025. It might be
> different if every 2.5 khz there was someone operating in the  
> contest but
> there wasn't. In fact there were several 20-25 khz segments where  
> no one was
> operating, yet there were stations below 7025 operating in the  
> contest.
> Thank you
>
>
> MAL
> N7MAL
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
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- Jack Brindle, W6FB
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