On Thursday 22 January 2004 12:37, RoadKing wrote: > > A Much more important issue to me is the fact that CW is dead for all > practical purposes, it "IS" still a means of communicating when nothing > else will work. but the FACT is the TIMES have changed, YOU can go into > the CW portion of the band and dial up and down for 100's of KC's and NEVER > hear a signal. And, you can call CQ at times for over and HOUR and > finally just give up because NOBODY will come back to you. Question to ASK > YOURSELF. When was the last time "YOU" made a CW Contact? HUH? if its > been at least 5 years or more then this will be a "hoss" you may want to > ride! > > My thought is that we petition the FCC, to OPEN most all The CW portion of > the band for Phone operation, leave 5 to 10 kc's for all the CW op's to be > able to go there and find, a MUCH more used portion of the Band. But > reallocate the rest of the CW portion of the bands for phone operation, > still maintaining some LICENSE classification separation!
Not sure what CW bands you have been listening to, but 90% of my operation is CW. QRP CW at that. Last year I was doing a lot of building, so only made about 700 QSOs, most years it is over 1000. When I do operate phone, I like AM, because most AMers are not the "boxtop license" crowd. BUT, CW is NOT dead. It is the 2nd most popular mode on Ham Radio. I would compromise, and call for 100 KhZ EXCLUSIVE CW on 80, 50 Khz on 40, 100 on 20 and 15, and 200 on 10M. NO Pactor, AMTOR, or any other of the TORs. They can have their own sub-bands, or share with SSB. -- John W2AGN http://w2agn.net
