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

[Rick Lindquist, WW3DE]

While OO reports carry no official FCC weight, the Commission does take them
into consideration, especially in the case of flagrant or ongoing
violations. 

The FCC no longer takes the hard-nose stance on incidental violations of the
amateur rules it once did (ie, 50 years or so ago, when I was first licensed
and got an advisory letter about my second harmonic). Also, few FCC
monitoring personnel copy CW anymore; those who can know the code because
they're hams.

Thanks for all the Qs during SS! I'm dedicating my operation to my friend
and neighbor Dallas, W3PP.

Rick, WW3DE

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Zack Widup
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 8:47 PM
To: CQ Contest
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 40m "new" approach to staying in the band?

Yes, but an OO report bears no official capacoty, either. It's done as a
courtesy.

Were I an OO, if I could hear the LSB or see it on a spectrum analyzer, I'd
send a report. If I couldn't, I wouldn't. Unless the suppressed-carrier
frequency was obviously below 14150.00.

Today's radios with digitan processing are truly amazing. You can generate
an SSB signal that has NO opposite sideband.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Doug Smith <dougw9wi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Zack Widup wrote:
> > That's what I thought. Since the US phone band for 20m is 14150 to
14350,
> > the USB signal components are all within the band if you're set at
> 14150.5.
>
> True, but I did once receive an OO report for operating USB on 14150.5.
>
> The guy argued that lower sideband suppression is not adequate and one
> should never operate below 14153 (suppressed carrier frequency) regardless
> of
> which sideband is in use.
>
> Needless to say, only a tiny fraction of hams would agree...
>
> --
>
> Doug Smith W9WI
> Pleasant View, TN  EM66
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