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[Zack Widup]

What I would really like to see happen is the 40 meer band expanded down 
to 6900 worldwide, and either move CW into the new 100 kHz letting the 
digi stations move down to 7000, or let the digi stations have 6900-7000.

Will it happen?  Chat fance?

73, Zack W9SZ

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Tom Osborne wrote:

> Forty meters is actually the only band where RTTY and CW mingle.  As people
> have said over and over again. some countries CAN'T work RTTY up high in the
> band on 40, that is why they congregate around 7040.  That leaves the U.S.
> stations with 2 options--don't work DX on 40 meters, or work the DX where
> the DX is.
>
> On 10, 15 and 20, the PSK stations stay .70 to .75 and all rtty is above
> there.  Eighty meters is a joke.  In the last RTTY contest, I made 3 Q's on
> 80.  73 and CU from K7CCH on FD.
> Tom W7WHY
>
>
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>> You don't need to "put" RTTY anywhere. CW and RTTY have a nearly
>> identical bandwidth and are no more incompatible than two CW or two
>> RTTY signals. Incompatibility is in the ear of the beholder.
>>
>> Bill W6WRT
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