[UK-CONTEST] Digital on 160

[Roger Parsons]

Bandplanning on 160 is a complete mess, and the
various 'recommendations' only seem to make it worse.

The section 1800-1810 is mostly used for domestic CW
contacts over here, and as there is virtually zero DX
operation on digital modes on 160, it seems to me that
that segment could be shared with digital. If Europe
was to use digital starting at 1810 that would also
not hurt anybody too badly. Then if the oft-predicted
demise of CW takes place, the digital modes could
gradually move up the band.

1838/1840 is just about the worst possible place, as
it will upset both phone and CW operators all over the
world.

Sorry to ride my hobby horse, but for the life of me I
fail to understand why (in NA anyway), just about all
SSB operation takes place below 1870, and often spills
into the CW DX band, when all of NA has 1800-2000
available, and many of the SSB contacts are across
town. The actual 'worldwide' operating area on 160 is
much narrower than on 30m. No phone on 30m....

If anybody would like a bit more snow, we have many
feet of it available - free - just come and collect it
- bring your heated thermal undies.

73 Roger
VE3ZI/G3RBP



> > From: "Andy swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Digital on 160
> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:00:40 +0000
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> 
> 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....
> 
> 



	
	
		
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