Hi Don: what does he even mean by these percentages? if he would treat cw at abt 500 cycles then there is almost no cw use. I have been running at or below 3.7 for weeks, last night I could not find a spot from 3675 to 3710 called cq on 3725and a guy on ssb came back and commented how good the audio sounded, he said it sounded as good as AM. I told him to put the rx on AM and have a good laugh. I think I will start dropping down to the 3650 to 3675 range. Bernie ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Chester" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 4:22 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Effort afoot to "reclaim" 3600-3700 CW subband
> 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. > ______________________________________________________________ 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.
