Alun L. Palmer wrote:
wrote in
ups.com:
Alun L. Palmer wrote:
wrote in
egroups.com:
This is because the US hams have to transmit in the BC band.
That isn't correct. U.S. hams are transmitting on the 40m amateur band.
Europeans and other DX are *listening* for the U.S. SSB ops on a BC band.
If the US hams
could transmit outside the broadcast frequencies this wouldn't continue.
The DX works split so that their sigs aren't covered by BC QRM.
That isn't necessarily correct. The sharp, rare ops are operating split
on *any* band if the pileup is huge. That keeps the callers from
covering his sigs.
If the rules are changed so that you can call the DX on their
frequency, they may still decide to work split.
7100-7200 will become worldwide exclusive amateur in a few years. Some
countries outside Region 2 have already opened 7100-7200 to their hams,
and SWBC continues to move out of there.
Yet even if we eventually get 7000-7300 worldwide exclusive amateur,
the DX will probably still work split.
They will if there are still broadcasters in 7150-7200, which there may
well be.
It'll happen whether broadcasters are there or not.
The hams who use Morse, that is. Have you noticed that almost all
on-air-behavior-related FCC enforcement actions are for alleged
violations using *voice* modes?
I guess no-one caught that guy who used to send ..-. ..- -.-. - .- on
repeaters around here
Guess not!
Do you think the number of hams doing similar things on voice is more
or less than those doing such stuff with Morse Code?
73 de Jim, N2EY
I don't think the lack of this behaviour on CW has much to do with pure
motives, but nore to do with a lack of audience.
So, hams using SSB act up because they think they'll be likely to have a
non-ham audience? That doesn't compute.
Dave K8MN