[CQ-Contest] Where will NAQP SSB be?

[Richard DiDonna NN3W]

An interesting question - impacted by the breadth of the subbands allocated each license class.

First, spots above 3.850 are congested with both pig farmers and nets.  With an extra 150 KHz of room for Extras an extra 50 KHz of room for even Generals, I think there is little reason to go above that point any more.  

I would think that we'd see a lot of actvity in two points - just above 3.800 to capture Generals - and around 3.700 to capture any advanced ops and the extras.

On the other hand, folks may gravitate very low in the band (i.e., 3625) since a lot of average hams may in the future decide to cut their 75/80 meter antennas to be resonant around 3.550 to allow for a good SWR spread in both the CW subbands and the low end of the SSB extra band.

73 Rich NN3W


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Robbins" <w4pa at yahoo.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Where will NAQP SSB be?


> So - doing antenna work at K4JNY yesterday with Jeff, W4NZ and K0EJ included
> putting up another low dipole for 75/80m use.  As were were tuning it, the
> question came up:
> 
> Where is the NAQP SSB contest on 75m now going to be?
> 
> 3700?
> 
> 3850?
> 
> 3625? 
> 
> I'm assuming we're going to pile in on the lower part of the new SSB part to
> avoid the conflicts we've had with non-contest use of the band in years past. 
> Am I right?
> 
> Scott W4PA
> 
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