RadioBanter - View Single Post - With CW gone, can the CW allocations be far behind?

July 22nd 03, 12:41 AM

In article ,
(Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:

In article ilgate.org,
K0HB wrote:

Except in the USA, most amateurs do not labor under "sub-bands" based on
mode. As an example Canadian amateur have no such restrictions. It's a
source of continuing wonder to me that the FCC continues to arbitrarily
slice and dice the bands based on mode, license class, power levels, and
similar artificial constructs of their imagination.

Not only that but the stupid allocation of the 7.00-7.100 as a CW
only band makes 40 meters almost unusable outside of the U.S.

Sounds like anti-American arrogance.....

There are no CW-only American subbands below 50 MHz. They're all shared with
'phone and image modes.

That's
our entire 40 meter band,

Because YOUR GOVERNMENTS (R1 and R3) want it that way. Been that way since
before WW2.

and so we can't work the states without spilt
operation, which doesn't often work because we are swamped with European
brodcasters.

So get your governments to get them to move.

We can't work locally, because by convention, we use ssb in the upper
half and get destroyed by all those digital signals that come from the
U.S. and clobber us.

If you think digital is bad, what do you think would happen with SSB?

IMHO the best thing to do is open 7.050-7.100 for ssb in the U.S. and move
the digital stuff to the old novice band.

Uh huh. Then it will be SSB and AM from the USA clobbering you instead of
digital. Guess which group tends to run more power? The US power limit is 1500
W peak output.

One of the main reasons the US has limited 'phone bands is to give those
outside the US a place to work without being clobbered by high powered US
'phones.

R1 and R3 are supposed to get 7100-7200 over the next few years, and the SWBC
move out.

73 de Jim, N2EY