wrote:


likely to be worse if Dee is correct in forming us that the novice cw
bands have had general phone pushed into them for phone ops

Dee may be correct regarding competition for band space. However, I still
think more operators are likely to know where the 'novice' subbands are
located (most hams have a band-plan chart somewhere in their shack) than
they are going to know the 'FISTS' regular calling frequencies.