[RTTY] IARU and 14100 Beacon QRM from Digital Signals

[Bill Coleman]

On Oct 1, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Bill Turner wrote:

> If we want to be really serious about this, contest rules should
> declare a "guard band" around the beacons, and stations violating it
> should be publicly disqualified.

I think we can take courteous operating seriously without having  
write every possible scenario into a set of draconian rules for each  
contest.

> "Gentlemen's agreements" are fine in theory but they simply do not
> work in a high pressure situation.

I disagree. With proper education and gentle peer pressure, we can  
avoid the worst of this problem.

> Ask the 160 meter crowd how successful they are.

The 160m problem is solved. There was a small group of folks who  
deliberately set up a net in order to cause conflicts with CW DXers.  
They continued this nonsense for years, until Riley Hollingsworth  
stepped in a got these guys to discontinue their operation in that  
part of the band.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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