> Chris KW6H wrote: > Below are my comments on the proposal. > ...if our proposals leave half of the new band for the CW ops. > Accordingly, while I can live with Bonnie's suggestion as > presented, I suggest moving the boundaries up by 10 KHz. > > 3500-3550 = CW > 3550-3570 = Any mode up to 500Hz bandwidth > 3570-3600 = Any mode > >...Now let's move all of the keyboarding frequencies up by 10 Khz
Hi Chris, Your comments have merit, and deserve careful consideration. Before I started researching what is actually happening, that was along the lines of what I was thinking, too. But, there is a lot of jockeying for position happening now, and you can follow some of those discussions on the various groups and nets and websites. If you look at the way the traffic nets and high speed data nets are already positioning, it pretty much takes out the top 40kHz (or more) of the band. It is a mish-mash at this point, with all the nets that were previously in clear space above 3600 moving down now. Weak signal operation is a real forte for some of our favorite keyboarding modes. Don't you think it makes sense that we shouldn't position our keyboarding calling frequencies to compete with the big guns, regularly scheduled, and time-sharing nets that are packing in like sardines above 3560? By the way, there are some CW ops talking about 75 meter activity above 3800. There's a lot of hams who have 75m antennas. ~3845kHz has been proposed as a new 75m watering hole for CW, cross-mode, and multi-mode. Bonnie KQ6XA .
