"Iitoi" wrote in message
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"Dee Flint" wrote in message
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I particularly like the Novice/Tech+ getting more CW bandwidth.

On 80m they used to have 50kHz pretty much to themselves. (Of course you
could have dropped a bucket of grenades on 3675-3725 and never touched a
single Novice or Tech 99% of the time.)

Now they'll have 75kHz on 80m, (a whopping increase of 25kHz) and they'll
have to share it with a host of ****ed-off displaced traffic nets,
RTTY/data operators, all the other Generals who were already there,
probably some displaced Canadian phone nets, and the W1AW bulldozer. What
few who migrate down there (I deem it less than 2 dozen anyhow) may not
share your "particular like" for the move.

The Man in the Maze
QRX from Baboquivari Peak, AZ




Still no problem for the CW ops. They can operate the entire band. This
may be the band where they choose not to limit themselves to the traditional
CW portion.

Besides that, generally the only time the CW ops go as high as 3.600 is
during a contest. Typically they stay between 3.500 and 3.550. So looking
at the current ARRL band plan, they digital guys may end up moving down a
bit but probably not clear down to the 3.550 but more likely to perhaps
3.560. Still though it may be the digital guys who feel a bit pinched. So
while the CW ops probably will not go ballistic, the digital ops might.

Dee, N8UZE