[RTTY] 40M RTTY band plans

[Jeffrey Smith]

That is so cool Rudy, a picture is really worth a thousand words.

73's de Jeffrey N5TIT





On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Rudy Bakalov via RTTY <rtty at contesting.com>
wrote:

> Here's where the stations are, based on RBN data from BARTG
>
> https://public.tableau.com/views/BARTGRTTYSprint2016/FrequencybyContinent?:embed=y&:display_count=yes&:showTabs=y
>
> Rudy N2WQ
>       From: Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com>
>  To: rtty at contesting.com
>  Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2016 9:48 AM
>  Subject: [RTTY] 40M RTTY band plans
>
> Bill writes:
> > This anomaly on 40 is a result of the JA band restrictions
> > which were in place for many years. The JAs were limited to
> > 7030-7045 so that's where everyone congregated, even when
> > working non JAs.
>
> I can certainly understand that perspective from the west coast. But as I
> see it from the east coast, the reason is that in EU the 40M phone segment
> starts at 7050 or 7060, and all the EU guys like to be below 7050 :-)
>
> 40M band plan has improved in recent years, as SW broadcasters move up or
> out. Still it's very common for 7080 region to be littered with phone stuff
> from Europe or South America (incidentally... most of them not ID'ing...
> just saying I'm pretty sure it's not legal ham activity.)
>
> In CQ WW there's enough RTTY activity that activity spreads out all the way
> up past 7080 to 7100 easy.
>
> A real highlight of my RTTY RU 40M experience, given that it happens near
> winter solstice, is when I'm calling CQ on 40M well before my sunset and
> work JA's (presumably long path). That's a thrill. So I'm real glad there's
> been recent improvements to JA 40M RTTY segment.
>
> I'm actually surprised that I had so many QSO's below 7050 in RTTY RU yet
> there is not a whole lot of EU in RTTY RU. (Certainly not like CQ WW where
> there is a whole lot of EU activity on 40M and well every band!). Don't get
> me wrong, I love working the EU guys in RTTY RU, but I'm surprsied that we
> "adopt the EU band plan" in RTTY RU despite the fact that EU is small
> compared to domestic stuff in RTTY RU. You might think a more rational
> approach, would be to let the EU guys CQ below 7050, and we go down there
> to work them, while we are CQ'ing higher up. Instead all the NA guys go
> CQ'ing below 7050 and make it dang hard to work the EU guys who genuinely
> have a reason to be dowh there.
>
> 80M is still less than optimal with EU able to do RTTY above 3600 but not
> USA. So in the really big RTTY contests we end up going below 3580 which
> starts some frequency fights with other digital modes in the 3570-3580
> region.
>
> Tim N3QE
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73 DE Jeffrey N5TIT

Sorter for the ARRL W5 Bureau "T"