[UK-CONTEST] CQWW 2004

[Dave Lawley]

A point that always seems to be overlooked in this debate about SSB in 
the wrong part of 40m is that it is an amateur exclusive allocation. 
However, when the MUF goes low, you get military and other signals 
popping up, in our band. Not just the Russians, but NATO (including UK) 
see our allocation as fair game.

This happens any time of the year, not just for a proportion of the 48 
hours of a major phone contest. Where are the complaints from the 40m CW 
users about that? From experience I have found that you can sometimes 
cause these illegal military signals to move. I hope that the guys who 
spent some of their weekend trying to get CQWW phone stations to move by 
sending CW over them, will also spend time trying to shift the illegal 
military stuff as well.

For the record, my position is the same as Steve and Andy. I often 
don't work the likes of KC1XX W3LPL in a 40m phone contest because they 
choose to listen in the CW portion.

Dave G4BUO