I was being too polite to say that. Thats exactly what happens with 40 SSB
even in this region. South and Central American stations drop down in our
CW band and completely bumfuzzel it. There is nothing like being a cw op in
those countries and try to work CW DX with loudmouth Nellie (in this case
Isabel) two blocks away talking to her cronies, 6 blocks away, on 40 SSB
right in the middle of the CW bands during an expediton, or a contest - let
alone the rest of the time. Just this morning on 14.005 there was a group
(callsigns remain unsaid) of SA stations yackking away on SSB right on the
VU7 freq. THATS why we need subbands - with teeth. Not only do they
interfere with us up here, but with their own ops who are trying to work DX.
I know about the 100 kc restrictions, well. That is going away, at least
partly, with the new expansion of the band, and not a moment too soon. Well
overdue. But dont believe it a minute that we dont hear the same
broadcasters, by the way. We have complained and complained to the FCC
about it. The international rules say that the broadcasters in those
regions may NOT aim their transmissions this direction, nor may they aim
their programming at any populations in this region. First - the back-end
reduction of 15db (if their antennas were that good front to back) of a 500
KW signal is still a whole lot of watts. They are still broadcasting over
15 KW smack at us that way. Secondly, I have set and listened to such
broadcasts with English language news "for the Americas", on those
broadcasts. Our own Voice of America was a big troublemaker in just that
manner, until we started closing down overseas sites. When queried about
it, we just got the standard, "we are aiming our transmission (in those
bands) away from the US). Sure they are. And thats why no one hears a ham
signal off the back of the beams too.
You mention inflexability of our bandplan. I would think that is what a
band plan is about - mishmash of modes is what got us into this to start
with.
Yes- we are going the same direction, what with our FCC giving up control of
anything that doesnt make them money, and the (what seems like) over
abundance of new modes fighting for their small bit of space- no one is
going to be happy. Just give us a couple of KC worldwide for PSK, a couple
or three of RTTY, and a couple for the "up and coming" digital modes, and
keep both CW and SSB off it. Lets see if it doesnt take off, and soon maybe
we will be loosing SSB freqs to the digital crowd, instead of CW freqs to
the SSB crowd.
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: "Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:11 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Trends in Frequencies for 40m Digi Keyboarding
>
> > I would query why the DX goes that low for PSK, as if they dont know
> about
> > the US sub bands. If they dont call in the sub-bands we can use,
> then they
> > are not going to work us DX. (speaking for the other classes of
> course).
>
>
> Aha! Because the rest of the world goes there to get +away+ from USA
> stations? ;-)
> When a country only has about 100khz of usable spectrum, everything
> needs to be shoehorned in and 7035 is where it's at.
>
> This is a problem about an inflexibility in YOUR bandplans, not ours.
> Yours are based on 300khz of spectrum and no broadcasters. You have
> WAAAAYYY too many regulations anyway, I would hate to see a Worldwide
> situation where we are expected to follow your recent debacle.
>
> Brad VK2QQ
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