Topband: bandplan

[Richard Karlquist]

This all sounds good, but it seems to me
it just creates a VE phone band.  Why should
we expect VE's to honor a voluntary band plan
on 160 when US stations won't?  On all the 
other bands, VE's use the top end of the US
CW band as their private phone band.  When the US
phone bands expanded, the VE's just moved 
farther into CW territory.  This seems like
unilateral disarmament.

Other than the VE question, what you say 
basically sounds reasonable.

Rick Karlquist N6RK

> What it does do is 
> protect narrow modes from wide mode QRM by 
> restricting wide modes to 1843kHz and above.
> 
> It draws a clear line in the band that requires 
> wide modes to contain all emissions above 
> 1843kHz, while "narrow" modes have free access 
> to ANY area of the 160-meter band. 
> 
> 4.) Protect all current narrow modes from wide-
> mode interference. 
> 
> 5.) Bring 160-meters into the same basic 
> structure as other bands below UHF, where ALL 
> other bands have a narrow-mode-only segment.
> 73, Tom W8JI