> Danny N7DC wrote: > 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,
7MHz is one of the best bands now for DXing. It makes sense to use the internationally-available band at 7025-7040kHz for digital texting worldwide. One must deal with the common denominator of available spectrum, if there is to be international communication. This is the ONLY slice of the 40m band that is universally available in every country to digital texting. Here in Asia/Pacific, the 40m band is dominated by thousands of JA stations. There is no way you will ever work me here in China on digital texting unless you do so in the 7025-7030kHz band. I'm on the air... but I simply cannot hear you, I cannot see you on the waterfall, above 7040kHz. There is a JA SSB station every 1.5kHz. At 7070+ kHz, the big guns are all working DX. As I said before, that will not change for at least 5 or 6 years here. USA's domestic CW can use 7000-7025kHz and 7040-7125kHz. 100kHz of spectrum is plenty of space for CW in USA. Bonnie BA7/KQ6XA .
