[NCC] Re: [MRRC] Please support K1ZM & W4ZV

[Jimk8mr@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/16/02 9:01:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, jgetz@pgh.net 
writes:

> 
>          Thanks to all of you for posting your comments on RM-10352
>  (regarding Wideband/Narrowband mode segmentation on 160 meters) at 
>  the FCC site.  Both K1ZM and I sincerely appreciate your support
>  to make 160 a better place for all of us!  However I have one more
>  request.


I for one don't think this petition such a wise idea.

Phone contest operation on 160 will impossible, except at the cost of major 
frequency fights with the normal users of the band, who ordinarily stay well 
above 1850.  Under the present system, phone DX contests avoid these guys, 
and vice versa.  The proposed system would be akin to prohibiting 75 meter 
SSB operation below 3850.  Not pretty.

This weekend is the SSB NAQP.  For a couple of hours Saturday night there 
will be SSB activity between 1800 and 1840 or so.  Will the world be any 
worse for it? I don't think so.  But if the petition was granted, it would be 
another contester-noncontester slug-it-out-fest, with poorer contest results 
and a lot of pissed off anti-contest sentiment generated.

I don't relish the thought of another band where we have to listen to VE's 
(including VY2ZMM?) running DX stations while we in the states can only 
anonomously plead "listen up".  

Be careful of what you wish for.


73  -  Jim   K8MR

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