[UK-CONTEST] Digital modes and band plans - BARTG Clash.

[Darrell G0HVQ]

I was in BARTG and also had problems on 40m. A carrier came up several 
times, then the guy came and told me to move. Fortunately he wasn't that 
strong so I just ignored him, but it does leave a bad taste.

The band plan for data modes as it is leaves us no choice, other than to QSY 
to another band. I think most of do as I do, look on it as a *plan* i.e. 
it's right and works most of the time, but sometimes it's not.

73
Darrell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David, G3YYD" <g3yyd at btinternet.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Digital modes and band plans - BARTG Clash.


>I was in the BARTG Contest and have been for many years. It started I
> believe in the 60s but I do not have documentary proof of that. So you
> could say the CW event is the new kid on the block. However that is a
> useless point of discussion we have what we have.
>
> I doubt if there was much of a clash on any bands except 40M so lets us
> look at 40.
>
> The normal practice in past years on 40m is for BARTG RTTY to spread
> from about 7028 up to 7050. This year 7031.74 was lowest frequency and
> the highest was  7047.90. 95% of my 237 QSOs were between 7033.5 and
> 7044, which is just over 10KHz.  RTTY guys should be complaining about
> CW operators in the data area - I heard one EU CW op above 7040 and
> plenty in the 7035-7040 area. Some even called CQ test on my run
> frequency even when it was obvious I was using the frequency. Waste of
> time, they would not make many CW QSOs while I was making RTTY QSOs, my
> filtering is only twice 50Hz wide and drops off the proverbial cliff.
> They soon gave up.
>
> As for USA ops access to frequencies is why they have an incentive
> licence scheme. No sympathy at all from me as the solution is in their
> hands - work at it and get the full band.
>
> The new 40m band plan, my personal view, is the same thing will happen
> next year as the allocation to CW and Data modes is too small to meet
> contest demand. Propagation will (hopefully) be improving and more
> stations will be competing in both events. There will be more SO2R
> operation with dual band CQing occupying twice the bandwidth of SO1R.
> (more Multi-Multi?) I think we need more flexible band planing with
> fuzzy edges so that during contests stations can officially expect QRM
> in those areas of the band adjacent to other modes. Look at ARRL DX
> phone SSB well below 7040 every year, below 7010 at times.
>
> Moral of the story is live with it, for the same is going to happen next
> year and is part of the contest challenge. QRM and over coming it, is
> part of what contesting is about. It is part of what drives us to strive
> technically and tactically. My sympathy is with the non-contesters who
> just want to make a normal rag chew QSO little hope of that on the lower
> end of 40m this weekend.
>
> David G3YYD
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