[UK-CONTEST] Digital on 160

[Ian White GM3SEK]

Al wrote:
>In a message dated 03/03/06 16:14:25 GMT Standard Time, ve3zi at yahoo.com
>writes:
>
>
>> 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.
>
>I think antenna bandwidth may have a part to play here.
>
>After the recent contests, and when posting their score to the reflector,
>some folks have been commenting about not being able to use their amps when
>operating much above 1870khz, presumably due to lack of a QRO matcher.

True, but as someone on the RTTY list pointed out, the QRO matching 
problem applies only to the tiny number of stations that actually 
*transmit* the news. That seems to leave very little excuse for news 
transmissions to take place down at the busy end.


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73 from Ian GM3SEK