Of course ... that's what happens when you have literally thousands of enthusiastic participants scrambling for limited space on the band, most of whom are trying their best to fit into the smallest possible slice of it. So what part of that represents justification for taking up more bandwidth than is necessary to communicate?
This isn't a contesting versus ESSB argument, though, or at least it wasn't until you flipped it in that direction. It's a question of efficient use of a scarce resource (bandwidth) on the HF bands. It's like camping ... when you're out in the middle of the woods ten miles from the nearest telephone pole, go ahead and crank up your boombox and rattle the leaves off the trees. When you're in a public campground 200 yards from the nearest Circle K, have the courtesy to use your earphones. Even with the K3, Elecraft tacitly acknowledges the risk of interference in ESSB mode when they state in the manual: "Carrier and spurious signal suppression, passband shape, delay characteristics, fidelity, and other aspects of ESSB performance are not specified. Use ESSB only after carefully monitoring your signal." Dave AB7E David and Dianne on Comcast wrote: > Over my 30 years on the air, I've observed more rude, selfish and > bandwidth-consuming behavior during contests than I have ever heard with > any ESSB round table. > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
