[TowerTalk] DX

[Phil Duff]

At 05:57 1/20/2002 -0800, Larry L Moore wrote:

>The VP8 guys made a very smart move on 20 meters ssb.
>They decided to transmit on 14.145, which is legal there, and recieve on
>14.200- up. Why was this spread smart??
>Because it gets rid of all the crazies/policemen/drunks. They know they
>are just in the noise at 14.195 but OUT OF BAND they stand out like a
>sore thumb, are clearly operating illegally-- and will shortly be
>identified. If they "jam" in the pileup nobody knows so thats no fun.
>SMART ON VP8'S PART!!!

This is exactly why this transmit freq was suggested to the VP8 team.

Transmitting on current "usual" DXpedition freqs of 14195, 21295 , etc is
a relic of when the 20m US phone band ended at 14200 and DX would
call 5 khz below the US phone band edge.

Why expeditions never migrated their transmit freqs below the new expanded 
US phone
bands is a mystery to me.

Seems it will certainly reduce the problems so common in recent years and 
should make
it easier to copy their signals.

73 Phil NA4M

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Phil Duff NA4M     na4m@arrl.net   Georgetown, Texas  



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