[CQ-Contest] A US Petition to remove CW only subbands

[Keith Dutson]

When I tune around mobile on 20 meters for CW during a weekday, there is seldom anything below 14.050.  On the weekends, it is a different ballgame.  Maybe it would be good for phone contests to allow contacts in the old phone bands only.

73, Keith NM5G

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Dietz
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 7:38 AM
To: Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com>
Cc: GC <greg at k9ig.com>; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A US Petition to remove CW only subbands

I think the CW only portions of the band were welcomed in the "Old Days" of AM phone. There were huge numbers of US stations on AM causing a huge cacophony of strong carriers and, if they were not limited to what was
called: "the US phone band," no one would have been able to work DX. Now this is not a factor and I am one to believe that our government should not limit us to lesser privileges than citizens of other countries have without good reason. However, since we are basically "no code" now, I would agree with the bottom 100 KHz of each band being CW only so that SSB doesn't squeeze CW out of existence.

Chuck W5PR
Just a boy and his radio

and amp and stacked monobanders...

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are only 2 band segments which are exclusively CW. Neither is on HF.
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> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 22:22 GC <greg at k9ig.com> wrote:
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> > I just saw this today.  This could make CW contests interesting in 
> > the
> US.
> > "Petition for Rule Making (RM-11769), filed on May 2. Arguing that 
> > retaining the current regime of “legacy” CW subbands has proven to 
> > be grossly inefficient, Whedbee (N0ECN)said he’d like to see the FCC 
> > delete all privilege restrictions that limit any part of the Amateur 
> > Radio spectrum to Morse code to the exclusion of other modes."
> > Missouri Radio Amateur Petitions FCC to Designate “Symbol Communication”
> > Subbands
> >
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> > Missouri Radio Amateur Petitions FCC to Designate “Symbol Communication”
> > Subbands
> >  The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association 
> > for amateur radio, connecting hams around the...  |  |
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