Is it your perspective that a single HF Net frequency combining multiple modes is preferred or a set of frequencies close by each using a specified mode?
I am thinking through my experience with Nets and one major problem, other than Lids tuning up on freq., is congestion. Perhaps trying to manage multiple modes on the same freq for a Net or emergency comms is a bad idea. (This does not stand as an argument for any mode anywhere or for chopping up the spectrum into tiny CB-like channels for competing modes -- mode competition is best resolved via required busy-mode detection and aggressive enforcement of anti-QRM regs.) There would be a central voice calling freq. (during propagation-challenged periods also monitoring a second freq. for a couple of different weak-signal effective digital modes). Voice-cw-digital-sstv would all be used in parallel. No single mode is the best mode for all purposes all the time! This would not require major changes to band plans, other than establishing the cluster of freqs reserved for emergency comms during declared emergencies and for testing and training on a weekly basis. This would equip the EOC's to take advantage of the strengths of each of the modes rather than trying to force one or the other to do its best and to also try to do what it is not designed for. WDYT? 73, doc kd4e > I was initially supportive of the regulation by bandwidth because I > erroneously thought that it meant that you could have any wide bandwidth > mode (especially analog voice) in a wide bandwidth area and switch back > and forth. > > While the FCC may (or may not) approve this, the ARRL has stated in an > editorial that Dave Sumner wrote a while back that there would still be > bandplans and they would not permit that to happen since they would > segregate by mode in the bandplan, even if it was not segregated by FCC > edict. > > Ever since then I have been much less enthusiastic about the changes. > > 73, Rick, KV9U Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
