[CQ-Contest] 40m lower band edge SSB

[Mike Ritz]

No, being US stations they were shown in my N1MM+ bandmap as "unworkable" (gray) spots, and weren't listed as anything "portable". There were several of them WELL below 7125 kHz. As I recall, they were "K" starting 2X3 callsigns, which leads me to believe that they were probably "newbies" who heard stations down there, found an open spot, then started calling CQ without realizing where they were. Of course, there is no way legally for a US station to tell the guy where he is, so hopefully a non-US station set them straight! 

Sometimes when there are a million spots it's hard to tell exactly where they are in the band if your bandmap is condensed. I have to be careful if I click on one to ensure he is not below 7127 kHz, which is the 40M frequency I use to avoid a notice for being too close to the band edge from an ARRL Official Observer! (Don't ask me how I know about that...) ;-) 

73; 
Mike 
W7VO 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Maarten van R" <pd2r.maarten at gmail.com> 
To: "Mike Ritz" <w7vo at comcast.net> 
Cc: "Contest List" <cq-contest at contesting.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 11:39:56 PM 
Subject: [CQ-Contest] 40m lower band edge SSB 


Hi Mike, 

Maybe you're jumping the gun on this one. Could it be that those spots you saw were QRG's where US stations were listening and that they were transmitting above 7200kHz? 
Did you only see spots or dit you actually hear them transmitting? 

73, Maarten PD2R 


Op woensdag 2 november 2016 heeft Mike Ritz < w7vo at comcast.net > het volgende geschreven: 


..... which is interesting, because I saw several US stations being spotted well BELOW 7125 kHz. Like 7060 kHz! I think a few people need to learn what the US band limits are... 

73; 
Mike 
W7VO 

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From: "Radio K0HB" < kzerohb at gmail.com > 
To: "W0MU Mike Fatchett" < w0mu at w0mu.com >, cq-contest at contesting.com 
Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 2:35:48 PM 
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 40m lower band edge SSB 

7.127 probably puts a fair amount of energy below 7.125, assuming your sob 
bandwidth is 2.4 kHz or better. 

I generally stay at or above 7.128. 

73, de Hans, K0HB 

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 16:01 W0MU Mike Fatchett < w0mu at w0mu.com > wrote: 

> For the USA it is 7.125, if I wanted to stay legal and keep my LSB 
> signal in the US band I would want to not transmit any lower than say 
> 7.127? Do I have this right? 
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