[CQ-Contest] RTTY Contest and CW Sprint

Bill Turner dezrat at copper.net
Sun Feb 11 11:13:00 EST 2007


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On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:14:07 -0500, "Ted Bryant" <w4nz at comcast.net>
 wrote:

>There was virtually no rtty activity above 7060 during the sprint. This spectrum was practically
>unused. (still true on Sunday am)  Is there some reason the rtty was shifted to the lower part of
>the band?  Seems there was needless conflict with the sprint (and other cw).
>
>73, Ted W4NZ

------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------

RTTY activity is low in the 40 meter band because of international
sub-band allocations outside of North America. To the best of my
knowledge, CW has no such limitations except on 60 meters.

Bill, W6WRT


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