Topband: Nice QRPP QSO

[Eddy Swynar]

On 2011-12-12, at 8:27 AM, N1BUG wrote:

> To me, 1.800 to 1.810 seems an ideal place for casual QRP and CW 
> operation where DX outside North America is not the goal. 

Hi Paul,

Yes, I agree totally...

It can be very difficult to locate any "...free space" on the band if all you want is a casual QSO: many is the time that I've had a leisurely rag chew interrupted below 1820-KHz with a terse, "QSY DX HR" directed my way---even after an already well-established QSO with another domestic station.

Having had some modicum of experience as to the general operating habits on the band, I can appreciate such a sudden plaintive plea---but a newcomer to 1.8-MHz may not, & he could well interpret such comments as being rude, and dismissive. That's why the bottom 10-KHz of Topband is, IMHO, the ideal "safe haven" for those whose interests might be different from the goals & ambitions of what appears to be the vast majority of its up-band CW denizens, i.e. DX'ing...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ