[CQ-Contest] 40m "new" approach to staying in the band?

[Steve London]

Not a bad idea, at all.

Where did this business about high bands being USB, and low bands being LSB come 
from, anyway ?

Are there any technical or legal reasons why we shouldn't switch to USB on 40 
meters ?

73,
Steve, N2IC

kr2q at optimum.net wrote:
> Recently, there has been some comment (privately and otherwise) about USA guys being 
> "out of the band" on 40 SSB.  Namely, how close to 7125 can you get, not the "ooops" 
> type of split event where you end up using the "wrong" VFO.
> 
> Call me stupid (nevermind, that's been done before), but why are we still using LSB on 40m?
> 
> If we would all agree to use USB on 40 SSB, then we could snuggle up against the bottom
> edge.  Yes, this would cause the "reverse" problem at the top end, but really, who is trying
> to run guys from up there?  For most of us, our antennas aren't that broad any way.
> 
> In theory (or on paper, if you prefer), this would allow us to fit stations in (well, maybe 2 more)
> in the valuable "lower half" of the phone band.  And just think...one less item to complain about.
> 
> Using USB on 40...wow...talk about extreme "out of the box" thinking.  I wonder if that would 
> qualify for the XTREME category in CQWW?
> 
> de Doug KR2Q
> 
> PS...this is actually a REAL suggestion.
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