[UK-CONTEST] Digital on 160

[Dave Sergeant]

This week's RSGB news contains an item about the GB2RS news now being 
transmitted in one of the new fangled digital modes and also digital 
voice. It is going to be on the 'allocated' slot for digital at 1840 
USB. For something which is really for (rather limited I guess) 
domestic consumption there really is a case for it elsewhere in the 
unused acres of Top Band rather than upsetting the rather narrow 
divide between the CW and SSB guys.

But I guess that was an amateur radio topic on GB2RS, that in itself 
is a change...

73 Dave G3YMC

On 3 Mar 2006 at 9:00, Andy swiffin wrote:

> There's an ongoing discussion on the rtty contest list
> http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/rtty/ that may be of interest to
> people here on the use of digital modes on top band and particularly
> some ideas for an informal  digital contest on 160.  I didn't realise
> that the rather crazy ARRL band plan puts digital in 1800 to 1810 and
> in fact very few US amateurs seem to know that we don't have that
> allocation or that our band plans are different.
> 
> And, The gentle bickering that occasionally takes place here is
> nothing compared to the all out claws drawn war that our dear yank
> cousins engage in in a related thread (actually the one that started
> the 160 rtty contest discussion) about the move of some ARRL news
> service to 1807 - we really are incredibly civilised in comparison....
> 


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