[CQ-Contest] In Band or Out Of Band

[rjairam at gmail.com]

One advice you get at various contest conferences is to operate close
to the bottom of the band... as people don't tune past maybe 14.250 or
even 14.200!

So this is why, I suppose.

73
Ria, N2RJ

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:34 AM Doug Renwick <ve5ra at sasktel.net> wrote:
>
> What would be the advantage to operating this close to the band edge? The
> station I am referring to is on this reflector; maybe he would like to
> comment.
>
> Doug
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces+ve5ra=sasktel.net at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Jim Brown
> Sent: March-29-21 7:01 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] In Band or Out Of Band
>
> On 3/29/2021 5:15 PM, Dennis Moore wrote:
> > Assuming the transmitter was operating within specs and he was an Extra,
> > it is in band.
>
> A disturbing number of rigs, most notably recent and current production
> Yaesu rigs, splatter 2 kHz both sides of their signal only 20 dB down
> (that is, 2 kHz on the suppressed side and 2 kHz on the other side of
> their operational sideband). Anyone using on of these rigs would be 1.5
> kHz out of band.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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