Not wishing to be argumentative but why would we want to alter the band
space just for contests? I regularly monitor 80 meters and 40 digital modes
but do not see a level of activity that merits additional space, except as
you say during contests.
I do see a lot of activity between 3.8 and 4.0 but it is all SSB and they
are every 1.5 to 2 Kc apart. Probably that is because so many hams have
General licenses and when in a round table the group would have several who
cannot go below 3.8 Mc. To me that would be a good argument for expanding
the space for SSB down to at least 3.7 to better utilize the band, if not
all the way to 3.6.
Jim
W5JO
-----Original Message-----
How would you even define "busy"? there's a lot of variables. Suppose
there were a 1000 amateurs on the air between 3600 and 3900. Because I
may not in their skip zone or conditions don't favor me with decent
reception, I only hear 50 of them. I would say the band is not busy yet
there are 950 of them out there on the air that I can't hear.
If you really want to detect "busy", "lots of use", "crowded conditions",
etc. get on the air during a contest.
Counting activeness is sort of like trying o count dust particles blowing
through your back yard.
Pete, wa2cwa
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:06:24 -0400 LM Picard <[email protected]>
writes:
Just curious. Does anyone have any data on just how crowed the bands
are? What fraction of the band allocations are "busy" at any
particular
time.
The ranks of active hams seem to be thinning out. Or am I wrong?
Saw an article somewhere that shows that the average age of licensed
hams keeps rising. That is there are relatively few young people
getting licensed. The few young people interested in a technical
hobby
seem to be into computer gaming, overclocking, writing cell phone
apps etc.
On 12/04/2015 5:33 PM, Bry Carling wrote:
> If you have an Extra yes CW US ALLOWED anywhere but quite a few
areas you will only have QSOs with other extras nowadays since
everyone else has lost some CW spectrum in recent years.
>
> If we are not vigilant they may well lose more.
>
> Best regards - Brian Carling
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