The following message is being forwarded around on the internet via e-mail and on some of the mailing lists. They do have a point. There is very little phone activity in this portion of the band, now that the novelty of the expanded phone band has worn off. Why not re-warm the band with AM? I'll be exercising my 3620 kHz xtal a little more often.
(QUOTE): "Since the changes were made taking away exclusive use of the 3600-3700 portion of the 80 meter band for CW, I have done extensive monitoring in it. There is very little use of this portion of the band now. I have heard some ssb activity in the upper 25 khz (3675-3700). Percentage of use during a one month period is less than 10%. From 3650-3675, percentage is less than 7%. From 3600-3650, percentage is less than 4%. That is an awful waste of band space. There has been ample time for someone to make use of these frequencies. Since they are not being used enough, I think it should be given back to CW/RTTY/Digital. During contest weekends, the present allocation of frequencies for CW,etc. makes it almost unusable for net operation and QSO's. Who else should I contact with these recommendations and statistics? I will be glad to do so. Me and thousands of other CW ops would like to see this portion given back to us. Thanks for your help and 73, Rodney Baker, W5DY STX Section Traffic Manager Tex CW Asst Net Manager TCC Member ORS (END QUOTE) Click or copy/paste the following link to read some of the replies to this message: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/cw/2009-January/subject.html Don k4kyv _______________________________________________________________ This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
