Bonnie, I know exactly the set up world wide, having live and worked in many
countries. Most government really don't give a hoot about ham radio, and
just let their operators go where and do what they want as long as they
don't get any complaints about them. With the new 7.1-7.2 assignment coming
up, it is time to change things, and get people (governments) to agree to
some intelligent sub band assignments, or we are just going to have more and
more disagreements about who does what, where.
It may or may not be and "FCC" dysfunction. Frankly, we had the majority of
the worlds hams, up thru the 50s or so, and if "common use" meant anything,
our operation methods/frequency use would have been made quasi-standard.
But, it wasn't, because everyone wanted to do "their own thing". Even in
areas that had the full blown 40 meters, you would find locals using SSB
down in the portion where most of the worlds CW ops were, and not just for
DX contacts, but to talk to their cronies across town - thus making it all
but impossible for their own CW ops to decently hold QSOs on CW with DX
stations.
Proponents for "lazie faire" on the ham bands, really don't know what it is
like to put up with that, or many minds would suddenly change.
There is not one "volunteer" band plan that is worth its salt, if hams
world-wide don't adhere to it.
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.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "expeditionradio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:58 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Trends in Frequencies for 40m Digi Keyboarding
> > I dont know why anyone would want to put the PSK signals down
> > at the low end of the 40 meter band,
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> Whether you like it or not, Danny, 7040-7100 is SSB in most of the world.
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> > I can almost understand it, when Europe had only 7.0-7.1, but
> > with an expansion to 7.1 to 7.2, Europe and the US should
> > use 7.080 7.100 or there abouts, for digital operations.
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> In Asia, where I am right now, 7000-7100 is our complete 40m band, and
> that probably will not change for at least 5 or 6 more years in most
> countries here.
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> > Of course, as it now stands, the digital signals
> > are almost as in bad a shape (worldwide) as is SSB with neither
> > area being able to work in the others.
> >
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> There is a big difference between the two:
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> With SSB, the reason for disfunction is due to USA's FCC authorized
> "phone sub-band".
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> With Digital texting/data, the disfunctional "bandplan" is voluntarily
> self-imposed by operators in USA. It can be easily changed by spinning
> your VFO.
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> 73 Bonnie BA7/KQ6XA
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