The only problem I see with this is how several tens of thousands or
even hundreds of thousands of hams are going to do 10-20 seconds of
sounding even using whole segments of bands. There won't be any room
or time for actually talking! I just don't see this being good for
most HF communications.
Soundings aren't required. They merely minimize wasted linking
attempts on currently-unsuitable bands. You can run an entirely
sounding free ALE network, and in fact the utility dxer crowd does
occasionally note such networks run by various government or NGO
entities.
If you want to have the
Hi Jim,
It sounds almost like you are making case to abolish all forms of
Amateur Radio Contesting with this argument of yours, no where in the
FCC rules are contesting ( which by the way I enjoy ) mentioned as
such, actually many of the FCC rules could be used to make an
argument against
