[RTTY] THANKS

[Eric - VE3GSI]

Hi Dick,

Here in Canada a number of years ago Industry Canada (akin to the FCC)
allowed deregulation of our bands by mode. Needless to say our government
regulations say we can operate any mode on any HF Amateur Radio frequency as
long as we stay below 6 KHz bandwidth. It can be a great advantage for some
fellows up here chasing European DX, but as you pointed out it does cause
problems. Please imagine the problem I have when a fellow Canadian starts to
call CQ using SSB just a few KHz from where I wish to operate in the
traditional U.S. CW or RTTY frequencies, there is nothing I can do about it.

The Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) do have guidelines as to where Canadian
Hams can operate using whatever mode. The optimum word here is guideline and
these are not enforced, nor do the suggested frequencies even match that of
the US on forty meters.

I understand this is the way the FCC is heading as well, that is,
deregulation of mode and go by bandwidth only.  And I suspect that when the
U.S. bands are deregulated by mode there will be a lot more of this
'spreading of modes' to all portions of the band. 

Dick, thanks for your observations, just not sure what can be done about it.
It really would be great if the whole Amateur community around the world
could align the bands. Personally I would like to see a simple demarcation
frequency between the voice frequencies and the rest of the modes, but I
think I am in a minority here.

73 Eric - VE3GSI



-----Original Message-----
From: Dick White

A note to thank all those RTTY ops for working me as Special Event Station
W0C. My club members and I had a ball doing this event. In the past week or
so there was a discussion about RTTY interfering with other modes. Sunday
evening and hour before the end of the ARRL DX SSB contest I tried to work
some 40 meter CW. On 7.022 MHz on SSB I copied VE3RM calling CQ contest. I
don't want to start another flame discussion, but we RTTY ops are not the
only bad guys.

73   Dick  KS0M