when I _didn't_ have at least one incidence of someone trying to jam me. It happens every contest. -- After my last phone contest many years ago, my family told me it sounded like having a parrot in
This one unfortunately worked both ways -- a number of European contest stations were CQing below 7030 all weekend. If this is to be prevented, I think it will probably take either a unified 40M allo
listening Of course there is something else to consider. If no stations answered those guys listening in your cw band they would quickly stop listening there. So I would say it is the fault of stati
There's another way to look at this too. How many stations during the CQWW and ARRL CW contests transmit above 7040? There simply is not enough room on the CW part of the band to fit everyone in. The
40 will remain a problem until the band is reallocated, hopefully soon. What you say may be true, but consider that your list contains some if the biggest of the big guns. Those are the stations that
Another way to look at it: DX nominally has 60 KHz to transmit (7040-7100). USA has 150 KHz (7150-7300), minus the broadcast QRM, of course. That's over twice as much! So the DX is already at a disad
feelings This one unfortunately worked both ways -- a number of European contest stations were CQing below 7030 all weekend. If this is to be prevented, I think it will probably take either a unified
in the CW band- one even as low as 7017 ! What a way to create negative feelings on 40. Of course there is something else to consider. If no stations answered those guys listening in your cw band th
During the CW contests the SSB guys should be understanding and during the SSB contests the CW guys should do the same. Since we are gentlemen we should be able to flex a little during contests for t
But with rare exceptions (IARU, for example), our contests are single mode or single band, and none use the WARC bands -- surely there is lots of contest-free spectrum on almost every weekend. 73, Pe
But with rare exceptions (IARU, for example), our contests are single mode or single band, and none use the WARC bands -- surely there is lots of contest-free spectrum on almost every weekend. 73, P