aswoodhull wrote: > It's not like the frequency is never available for other uses. The W1AW code > transmissions are on a regular schedule, at most 7 hours a day during > weekdays (6 hours on Monday, none at all on weekends and holidays). So if you > happen to be rock bound on this frequency you still have a lot of predictable > hours when you will not find W1AW there.
Unfortunately, those are also the hours where you won't find propagation on 3580. Or the middle of the night, when a working ham will probably be asleep for good reasons... I'm not going to dispute your other points, because I agree with them :) -- All rights reversed.