[UK-CONTEST] CQWW 2004

Mon Nov 1 16:14:20 EST 2004

Hi Lee,

My regular logging program is Win-EQF - bandplan info. is supplied in
several files, and you choose the one relevant to your particular location.
Interestingly, this is the 40m info from the North American file.  I can't
vouch for its absolute accuracy, but I doubt it is far wrong:

5.40355 7.0                   Out of Band!
7.0         7.025   CW      Extra Class CW
7.025     7.040   CW      General Class CW
7.040    7.041    RTTY   General RTTY DX
7.041    7.08      CW      General CW DX CW
7.08      7.1        RTTY   General RTTY
7.1        7.15      CW      Novice & Tech CW
7.15     7.171     LSB     Advanced Class Phone
7.171   7.172     LSB     Advanced SSTV
7.172   7.225     LSB     Advanced Class Phone
7.225   7.290     LSB     General Class Phone
7.290   7.291     AM      AM Calling Frequency
7.291   7.3         LSB     General Class Phone
7.3       7.334                 Out of Band!

Although the R2 bandplan apparently permits phone all the way from 7.050 to
7300, this is so much more restrictive.  With R3 allowing phone from 7.030
to 7.300, it is obvious that NA will get the best shot at R1 contacts if
they can get us to tx below 7.030.

73,
Doug G0WMW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Volante" <lee at g0mtn.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "UK Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CQWW 2004

| Hi Doug,
|
| Good question.  The USA has fixed restrictions as an immediate example.
And
| as you mention speeding tickets, USA stations can also be reprimanded by
| 'observers' who might spot them operating out of band or with a poor
signal
| etc.  I don't know the details, but I think this starts off as a friendly
| hint, but presumably with penalties for repeated offences.   Also the USA
| guys should not call above 14.347 to keep their signal within band, but
you
| often find others camped out on 14350.  On the Announced Operations list
the
| Guam crew tell us to listen from 7.075 to 7.100 for them - no joy here (of
| course.)
|
| I don't know if any Europeans have similar fixed bandplans, which would
| presumably create a disadvantage against other Europeans with the existing
| R1 40m allocation during major contests.  The US 40m phone allocation is
| wide enough, so there's not going to be too much of a problem following
it.
| Perhaps the US guys get frustrated at SSB multipliers in contests hiding
| below the US phone segment on the higher bands.  They don't seem to
| transgress it anyhow.
|
| In the main, I thought contesters did pretty well on 40m at the weekend.
In
| the daytime, as has already been said, general adherence to the preferred
| bandplan, and I also heard a GB station still making QSOs in the melee.
At
| night, most of the traffic was above .040, and whilst there were some
| Europeans below, the majority were DX.  There were some kHz free for CW.
If
| you're operating split, and so don't have your own transmission to 'make a
| space' on 40m, below .040 seems very tempting.
|
| Some of the US guys always seem to have operated split to very low freqs
on
| 40m, and I don't recall complaints about that in particular before, only
if
| stations, and particularly EU stations start calling CQ there.  Different
| stations sending single calls and reports on 7.009 has a much smaller
effect
| than calling CQ there.
|
| My own halfway-house approach is that I will call other stations below
.040,
| but would not feel comfortable calling CQ there.  There's another argument
| that even by calling the other guy, I'm giving him a QSO and so condoning
| the activity etc.   Whilst we could get tough on any 'bandplan violation'
| transmissions, I don't know whether it would be truly successful unless
the
| whole of Europe would do the same thing, preferably at the same time,
| otherwise some countries would be disadvantaged.  I would certainly have
| been a few multipliers short.  (Hmmm, speaking of which, I can see a well
| worded counter argument from lots of European guys coming up about us not
| using 7.100 to 7.200 for contests until everyone's got access to it.)
:-)
|
| 73,
|
| Lee G0MTN
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Doug Roberts" <g0wmw at arrl.net>
| To: "Les Allwood" <g3vqo at mapleleaf.plus.com>; "UK Contest"
| <uk-contest at contesting.com>
| Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 7:26 PM
| Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CQWW 2004
|
|
| > Um, forgive my stupidity, but I thought the bandplans were voluntary?
| >
| > Pop this in your browser:  http://www.iaru-r2.org/hf_e.htm  - it takes
you
| > to the IARU Region 2 website.  One of the footnotes to the excellent
| > comparison table of regions 1, 2 & 3 bandplans says,
| >
| > "These bandplans are voluntary and as such cannot legally be enforced,
| > except in some countries in which the bandplans are written into the
| > national regulations." - anyone know which countries those are?
| > _______________
| >
| > Can I suggest a parallel to this strange allegation in that, since they
| > issue the licences, we should hold the Driver and Vehicle Licensing
Centre
| > responsible for all speeding and parking tickets?
| > _______________
| >
| > Surely, if conditions are attached to the use of short calls, people
will
| > just stop using them?
| >
| > 73,
| > Doug G0WMW
| >
|
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