On Mon,1/5/2015 10:54 AM, David Cole wrote:
To expect the worldwide Amateur Radio community, to clear out space on every band, for the few hundred JT users, on the off chance someone might be transmitting, is simply insane and selfish.
I've made a lot of QSOs using the WSJT modes, but I wouldn't dream of doing so when a contest is occupying the same space. The same is true of CW or SSB on contesting bands during a contest. We hams have a lot of spectrum, but none of us owns any frequency, either individually or as a group. Contest organizers intentionally avoid the WARC bands, and RTTY contesting intentionally avoids 160M. Someone who wants to work JT65 or PSK31 on HF during a RTTY contest can QSY to 160M, 30M, 17M, or 12M. So can CW operators. At least one of these bands will usually be open enough to have fun.
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