[RTTY] ARRL Move To 1807.500 KC

[Thomas Giella KN4LF]

jcarcia at arrl.org Sorry I didn't mean to omit Joe's email address.

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Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Lakeland, FL, USA
Grid Square EL97AW
kn4lf at arrl.net

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David J. Ring, Jr. 
  To: Thomas Giella KN4LF ; MFSK at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 3:01 AM
  Subject: Re: [MFSK] ARRL Move To 1807.500 KC


  Tom,

  Why didn't you include Joe's email so we could all write?  It seems odd that 
  ARRL doesn't even follow its own band plan.

  73
  David N1EA

  Here is my email request to Joe Carcia concerning the ARRL plan to QSY from
  1817.500 kc to 1807.500 kc. It's the last post I'm going to make on the
  subject. Either you take the initiative to try and stop the move or when it
  occurs don't complain. I suspect that the response from the digital
  community will be anemic as most don't operate on 160 meters. However if the
  QSY was to 14070 kc there would be more of an uproar.

  Joe,

  As an ARRL member in good standing I'm advising you that it is a very bad
  idea to QSY W1AW operations from 1817.500 kc to 1807.500 kc beginning on
  April 3rd, 2006. 1807.500 kc +/- 3 kc is a main and very active frequency
  slice for weak signal PSK31, MFSK16, OLIVIA MFSK and RTTY digital
  operations. W1AW operation there would wipe out this main meeting frequency
  and more.

  On 160 meters the ARRL band plan calls for digital modes between 1800-1810
  kc and CW between 1800-2000 kc, so it makes no sense to begin operation on
  1807.500 kc. If you do the math it's 10 kc for digital modes and 200 kc for
  CW.

  I'm an avid CW operator too and I'm aware of the pressure the 160 meter CW
  DX community has been putting on your 1817.500 kc operations. But the
  solution to that issue is not to QSY down to 1807.500 kc. Please reconsider
  your frequency choice.

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  Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
  Lakeland, FL, USA
  Grid Square EL97AW
  kn4lf at arrl.net

  KN4LF Amateur & SWL Radio History: http://www.kn4lf.com
  KN4LF 160 Meter Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf8.htm

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