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Dave Heil[_2_] · March 29th 08, 06:18 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.moderated

wrote:
Steve Bonine wrote:
One definition of "optimum allocation" is providing the same usability
for operators of every mode. In order to accomplish this, one needs to
know the number of people who wish to use each mode. It's not possible
to directly and accurately obtain this number, but perhaps counting the
number of QSOs in progress might approximate it.

In the absence of any data, I'm not going to speculate about whether 40%
is a reasonable number. Have there been any attempts at measuring
utilization in an objective way?

The USA band restrictions serve a very usefull purpose for the rest of
the world. It gives us a chance of finding a frequency that is not
full of american chatter. If the band is open the USA general section
is almost invariably solid with high power QRM.

g4jci

That's a double-bladed sword you're waving there. Plenty of foreign
phone signals are to be found in the upper portions of various bands.
Where to the U.S. radio amateurs go to avoid the non-U.S. chatter.

I don't think there is any was to determine whether U.S. ops are running
high power or not. Propagation may favor one area over another; someone
might be running low power with an outstanding antenna system. Defining
the mere presence of signals as "QRM" might cause some to take offense.

One question which begs asking is why foreign phone stations should have
a shelter from U.S. stations when U.S. stations have no similar shelter
available to them? Another puzzler is why foreign CW stations seem to
get by just fine without a similar refuge from Americans.

Dave K8MN