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

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

The benefit of using USB on 7125 could be accomplished with minimal  
confusion to the rest of us if the king of the lower band edge, whoever it might  
be, would use USB, while the rest of the band continued with the  
traditional LSB.  
 
There might even be a useful function to that, in that a guy tuning down  
the band might hear a guy on the opposite sideband, say "WTF?", and then 
realize  that he had hit the edge and ought not bother tuning any lower.
 
By the same logic, it might be beneficial if the users of the upper band  
edges, i.e. 14350 and 21450, were to use LSB. 
 
73  -  Jim   K8MR
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/5/2009 2:06:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
n2icarrl at gmail.com writes:

I would  like to clarify the statement I made earlier:

"Frankly, I don't care  what sideband the rest of the 40 meter users use."

First, let me  apologize to anyone who may have taken offense from this. I 
did 
not wish  to imply that either I, or other contesters, should run ram-shod 
over 
the  non-contesters using 40 meters.

When I wrote this, I was thinking about  all of the weekday nets and 
ragchews on 
40 SSB. Contest activities have no  impact on these users, whether they use 
LSB 
or USB.

As to contest  weekends on 40 SSB, there are several variations:

1) Contests with  relatively light activity, such as most state QSO 
parties. The 
effect on  non-contest uses is relatively small. It shouldn't matter 
whether  
contesters use LSB or USB.

2) Contests with heavy activity, such as  CQWW Phone or SS Phone. 
Currently, the 
effect on non-contest users during  many hours of the day is severe. The 
effect 
on non-contesters would  continue to be severe, whether or not contesters 
use LSB 
or USB.

I  hope I have clarified any misunderstanding, and not dug myself in deeper 
 :).

73,
Steve, N2IC