I haven't attempted to formulate a response yet, but two things immediately come to mind.
One, the bandwidth issue. The Region 1 plan specifically accommodates AM on any phone frequency despite nominal maximum bandwidths posted in the chart. This is conspicuously absent from the current Region 2 plan. Two, 40m. Although this would take FCC action to correct in the USA, phone/cw segregation should be more closely aligned with that of the other regions. Specifically, in light of the removal of (most) broadcast stations from 7100-7200, the N. American band plan should accommodate phone down AT LEAST to 7100 kHz. (Most other Region 2 countries are already operating phone well below 7100 anyway). This would apply immediately to Canada, Mexico and other countries in the Americas, since nearly every country in the world, except for the U.S., long ago phased out government-mandated subbands. It is ridiculous that 25% of the newly-vacated frequencies are off limits to US phone operators, yet at best there are hardly ever more than a half dozen or so CW/RTTY/data QSO's on 7100-7125 at any given moment, while 7060-7100 remains under-used by U.S. non-phone ops as well. SSB ops are fond of complaining about AM activity in the vicinity of 7160 because of the "limited band space" to operate phone in the newly vacated segment. We need to be thinking of a petition to the FCC to further expand the 40m phone band. 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 Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
