It is announced that the upcoming DXpedition to KP5, Descheo Island,
plans to use 60meter band. This is a mistaken use of this band because 1. it was justified to FCC to be awarded to ham radio as an EMERGENCY BAND, not a DX band. 2. it wil obviously be overloaded in the extreme, having nearly 24 hr openings to the States, leading to sigs out of the sliver bands as ops desperately try to be "a little off freq" to get the DX's attention. 3. It gives casual ops another reason to condemn DXpeditions because, in this case, the whole band is likely to be occupied with KP5. This is the biggest zoo of all time waiting to happen. It is no accident that ARRL currently sez it will not credit award contacts on this band. I hope more responsible minds will see the error of this way and retract that use. 73, Charles Harpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
