30m was not used in the RTTY Round up. Just where would you like the RTTY stations to go?
The ARRL band plans suggest...Suggest the following for normal everyday use. 3570-3600 7040, 7080-7125 10130-10140 14070-14095 The FCC allows USA hams to operate RTTY on the following frequencies. 3500-3600 7000-7125 10100-10150 14000-14150 It appears that all this RTTY activity is clearly within the rules. The Roundup was for 24 hours and the RTTY operators used lots of bandwidth that for the most part goes unused. There are always a few hams that seem to think they own certain frequencies and get upset when they are used by other amateurs for other purposes for brief periods of time. I guess the fun of the many have to be sacrificed for the few? Riley Hollingsworth, Chief Counsel for the FCC, spoke at great lengths about this type of attitude the last two years at Dayton. I think you can find it at the ARRL site or even on Youtube or other ham web pages. It is worth the few minutes of time to hear what he has to say. The extra portions of the bands were for the most part RTTY free. Many amateur bands did not have any contest activity on them at all. 12, 17, 160, 60, 2, 6 etc. There were plenty of CW signals to copy outside the RTTY areas. I suspect your complaints are not targeted at just the RTTY crowd but probably at contesting in general. This same contesting that gets people to use 10m at the minimums and utilizes a good portion of our bands on a regular basis which helps keep our claims to these frequencies. This same contesting group which is a huge buying force in Ham radio and a huge force to bring on new ideas and rigs such as the K3. RTTY is one part of the hobby and so is SSTV, QRP, SSB, AM, PSK etc. If contests are that troublesome find a non contest band or simply turn off your radio for the weekend and mow the lawn etc. On 1/7/08 8:40 AM, "WA7CS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After a week of building a new K1, I was anxious to try it out and get on the > air. > > Imagine my dismay when all I could hear was a racous cacaphony of RTTY > splatter from 7.025 to 7.100. Similarly 14.060 was also RTTY hell. > > I was even pushed off of 10.130 (WARC) by an incessant RTTY "CQ TEST". > > I wonder what drives the ritty boys to swamp the traditional CW bands and > wipe out the QRP calling freqs - oh yes, now I remember, the ARRL has deemed > CW as non-relevant. > > Renewal of my ARRL membership is becoming less and less attractive. > > WA7CS > ARRL member since 1970 > ARRL EWA HF Awards Manager _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
