I believe their original plan had merit, except that they should have transmitted in the Extra portion of the bands and listened above in the General and Advanced portion of the CW bands.
The change they chose leaves too much temptation for non-Extra class hams to work them illegally since the ARRL DXCC Award only specifies reporting the band used and not the actual frequency used by the transmitter of the DXCC applicant. There have been times when I was an OO that 4U1ITU made a habit of transmitting just a KHz below the CW bands and listening only on their TX Frequency causing many US hams to get OO notices for being outside an Amateur band. When I reported the 4U1ITU practice to the ARRL they told me to stop making trouble. 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:19:37 +0200, Jon K Hellan <[email protected]> wrote: >On 09/11/2012 03:39 AM, Tony Estep wrote: >> However, they are now operating entirely in the Extra portions at >> the very low end of the bands, probably in the hope that the pileup >> behavior will improve. Of course, to the limited extent that this improves >> matters, it's good only for CW and only on the non-WARC bands. > >Not to mention, only for US hams, 30 - 40% of the HF ham population? But >they're closer to the Pacific than Europe is. > >Jon LA4RT > >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:[email protected] > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
