[UK-CONTEST] Digital on 160

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Check out the following, posted on the ARRL web site:

"W1AW 160-meter frequency change put on hold (Mar 1, 2006) -- QRX on 
that W1AW QSY! Maxim Memorial Station W1AW has rescinded recently 
announced plans to change its 160-meter CW frequency starting 
Monday, April 3 and will remain on 1817.5 kHz for the time being. 
The announced change to 1807.5 kHz was aimed at reducing the 
possibility of interfering with DX stations that have begun showing 
up in the vicinity of 1817.5 kHz. "Lately we have received more 
complaints about W1AW interfering with weak DX signals," said ARRL 
CEO and W1AW Trustee David Sumner, K1ZZ. "Some of these complaints 
were about key clicks, which set us on a quest to put the cleanest 
transmitter we could find on 160." With the key click problem on the 
way to resolution, it was decided nonetheless to move W1AW's 160-
meter frequency lower in the band. "After what we thought was due 
diligence we decided that it made sense to shift below 1810 kHz," 
Sumner recounted, "since that is the lower band edge in Region 1 and 
would pretty much eliminate the conflict with DXers." Monitoring 
showed that 1807.5 appeared to be generally clear. "Unfortunately," 
Sumner continued, "we failed to pick up the fact that PSK31 
operators appear to have adopted 1807 kHz as their 160-meter 
frequency, and we don't want to conflict with any established 
activity centers." Under a tight deadline to announce the W1AW 
operating schedule 30 days in advance, the League has rescinded the 
frequency shift for now. Sumner said the question will be revisited 
over the summer to try to gain consensus on a frequency to shift to 
after Daylight Saving Time ends October 29."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 9:00 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Digital on 160


> Hi
> 
> 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....
>