On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:36 PM, pentalab wrote:
--- In ham_amplifiers@..., R L Measures <r@...> wrote:
RICH SEZ... I also find it disturbing that the ARRL tries to
control the way we use amateur radio bands.
### agreed. In Canada it's any mode on any band on any freq...
there are No phone sub bands. ESSB on 3507 khz... no problem. We
would never do it of course. The rest of the planet operates this
way. Makes it totally elastic.. and flexible. The u can move
about more during a contest... whether u are for or against the
contest. CW band clogged up... move up a bit.
### Seems stupid to the rest of us that USA hams can operate CW
across the entire band... but ssb down on 3680 is a no-no.... even
though that part of the band is dead night after night.
Quite
Take a look at the 1.8MHz band: There are no
ARRL-approved sub-bands. No part of the band is reserved for CW, for
AM, for spark. for SSB, for snobs, or for any we're better than
you are elite group. We run what mode we want in any clear space we
want. Things pretty much sort themselves out, and nobody owns a
certain frequency -- with that one exception, of course.
### Lemme guess.... Rauch's favourite personal playground... 1822
khz...reserved exclusively for hiscw dx acivities.
According to the guy in Manhattan who tipped me off about his debating strategies prior to the grate parasitics debate, he holds court for his groupies on his frequency using SSB.
OTOH, take a look at the 3.5MHz band. where many KHz are
virtually a vast wasteland because of ARRL-blessed sub-bands.
### agreed. Aren't the ARRL... the fella's that promote all the
contests [qrm fests].... guys making thousands of useless qso's?
Then they have the audacity to come up with this stupid 3 khz max
bw for ssb.... and promote digital voice [which still doesn't
work... and neither does drm/iboc]
Bingo
### They couldn't band plan their way outa paper bag. I used to
be heavy into contesting yrs ago.... but I didn't call CQ... 300 hz
from a group of guys on 75m... all running QRO.
### On 40m it's a real mess. They all operate split.... too bad
they didn't listen on their TX frequency. They do the same thing
on 75m... TX right on top of a qso.... and listen down on 3610.
A fun solution to this problem is to tape record them on the frequency they are interfering with and play it back on the frequency they are listening to.
### The real answer is to just move ALL the AM SW broadcast junk
from both 40m and 3900-4000....... down to say... 11m.
Guffaw
Later... Jim VE7RF
cheerz
73, Tony W4ZT
R L Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734
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