[RTTY] ARRL BOD minutes and NAQP RTTY QRM

[Jeff Stai]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Create a 10 kHz Technician Digital Subband with a limit of 200 watts in
> the
> > 80m, 40m, and 15m bands. Digital modes would be limited to RTTY and
> > PSK. The subbands would be 3,600-3,610 kHz (moving the bottom of the
> > Extra phone band to 3,610 kHz), 7,115- 7,125 kHz, and 21.190-21.200 MHz.
>
> There's some good connotations in this proposal, and some bad connotations.
> My gut reaction:
>
> I'd be all for expanding RTTY on 80M. Right now anything above 3600 is
> forbidden to US RTTY although it does get pressed into service by EU hams
> in the big RTTY contests as there's no space left lower on 80M.
>

That was my first reaction as well, and agree. However - I haven't seen the
actual proposed rule if it even exists yet - but precedent would indicate
that the 200 watt limit would be applied to all license classes, not just
Technician class. So yes you could go there during the WW but you would
have to crank down the watts as a HP station. 73 jeff wk6i


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