Topband: ARRL 160m contest and DX Window?

[Mike Waters]

After playing in the ARRL DX contest in the early morning hours, it looks
to me that what is *really* needed is a small DX window somewhere in the 15
kHz JA segment 1810-1825. Heck, it could even be less than 5 kHz wide.

>From my QTH in the central USA, I could copy JAs who were working NA
stations; and some JAs spotted NA stations in the cluster. But 1810-1825
was wall-to-wall NA stations calling CQ.

What are the chances of such a DX window making it into the rules? Maybe in
a future Stew?

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Petr Ourednik <indians at xsmail.com> wrote:

> the split JA operation schema for decades ago was:
> JA TX > 1907.5 - 1912.5kHz and listen for rest or worls in between 1820 -
> 1825kHz.
> This "JA window" 1907.5 - 1912.5kHz has been not used in contests from
> 1999 by JARL
> because the band was too narrow. The SSB was not permitted.
> I worked several JA topbanders over there split down to 1820 - 1825kHz.
>
> According to the Ministry's announcement, effective April 1st 2000,
> additional 15kHz, i.e. from 1810 kHz to 1825 kHz, has been allocated for
> amateur radio use. The announcement was available in the Japanese language
> at
> http://www.mpt.go.jp/top/public-comment/public-comment000207.html
> but it does not work I guess.
>
> You might be interested in JA band plans which is available here.
>
> http://www.jarl.or.jp/English/6_Band_Plan/JapaneseAmateurBandplans20090330.pdf
>