There would be nothing illegal with operating RTTY or digital modes in the WARC bands and whether it is a contest or not would not enter in to it.
Several of the international bodies have agreed to not recommend that contests occur on the WARC bands. I suppose with certain interpretations that we have been seeing recently from the FCC enforcement folks, they could use this as a claim against good amateur practice, but you would have to get someone to sponsor such a contest and thus far no one has done so. In terms of U.S. radio amateurs, it is strictly a gentleman's agreement to not contest on the WARC bands. I would prefer minimum control by government bureaucracies. I suppose we will be referring to these three bands as the WARC bands for a long time to come. Partly, because it is easy to lump them together for such things as no contesting on these bands. Otherwise, what would you call them? 73. Rick, KV9U Danny Douglas wrote: >Probably some of our new upgraded people who have no idea that contesting is >disallowed on the WARC bands. They will find out in one of two ways: They >will give a nice letter from the FCC, or the sponsor will disallow their >entry in the contest for illegal operations. > >Danny Douglas N7DC >ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA >SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all >DX 2-6 years each >. >QSL LOTW-buro- direct >As courtesy I upload to eQSL but if you > use that - also pls upload to LOTW > or hard card. > >moderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] >moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DXandTalk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: F.R. Ashley > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:39 PM > Subject: Re: [digitalradio] RTTY Contest on 17M > > > Yes Russ but I also heard the USA contesters on 17 meters. The XT2 was > there but there were indeed some contesting going on. > > >
