[SECC] Notes on 40 and SAC

[Bill Coleman]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Dan/W4NTI wrote:

> And how far into the usual
> CW band were you? It is indeed a two way street.
> 40 is way too crowded.

It should get better here by 2009, when 7000-7200 kHz is a worldwide  
allocation. That will give room for SSB to move up above 7100 kHz,  
and leave a place for RTTY and CW to split the remainder.

It's kinda funny. One the one hand, you want the RTTY guys to move up  
out of the "usual" CW band, but also complained they were QRMing  
folks in the Region 1 SSB band. Where, exactly, would you have them go?

I stayed out of the SSB portion. On 40m, I don't think I got above  
7050. I did listen with the headphones the whole time, and I tried to  
keep my RTTY tones off of the usual CW watering holes of 7040 (where  
there's lots of crystal controlled rigs), 7030 and a couple of other  
frequencies.

I agree about 30m. It's a great band. I hear a lot of CW there, not  
much RTTY.

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