Don, You efforts are appreciated. I can understand the hurdles involved. Mike N2MS Mike - I agree the objective, but the reality is a little harder! The 160 allocations across Europe, for example, va
Appreciate the reminder re Region 2, Mike.....but......will a "common plan" amongst all IARU regions, if not adhered to by participants (evidenced here in Region 2), be "worth the effort" to bring ab
Im impressed that you could hear the US SSB stations. I have never heard NZ on 160. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
James, Let's assume region 1 and 3 allow high power SSB operation above 1.850 Mhz and CQ "recommends" that operators say above 1.850 Mhz and away from the 1.910 QRP or 1.995-2.000 experimental segmen
Hi Don, I was surprised to see some very active countries cannot operate above 1850 kHz at all; for example: 9K CT F LZ SV TA TF ZS Severe power restrictions above 1850 are very common as are restric
It is common practice in the CQ WW 160M Contest for CQing on the NA and EU side to occur in the 1810 - 1825 range. I was doing so twice in the contest last weekend. It was pretty much every 3khz CQin
Author: Roger Parsons via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 22:01:09 +0000 (UTC)
A few more comments seem necessary: I do of course agree strongly with Greg ZL3IX. The only reason I am arguing for a smaller CW segment is that there is very strong entrenched opposition from the co
Hi Ed, Despite your experience, Europe can't call you on 1811 LSB either... Operators in those European countries with SSB priveleges below 1840 can only call you on a suppressed carrier frequency of
On Tue,3/1/2016 2:01 PM, Roger Parsons via Topband wrote: OK, so there is no reason at all from a contester's perspective why all the contests and QSO parties that have low 160m usage should not have
Yo, Have we beat this poor horse to death yet??? It's all interesting, but I think we're starting to go over ground already covered. Plus, somehow, we've dragged VHF freqs into the discussion. (Let t
Hi, I am resurrecting an aging, 'Rip VanWinkle" radio that includes 160 meters. I was finally ready to apply power for a first test and all of those naughty SSB contesters on 160 meters provided me w
not generally part of the allocated spectrum. Various countries have various parts of the band with varying power privileges (you'll have seen http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php/documents/Documents/HF
Don, The use of that spectrum by others has reduced very significantly. I cannot say that there are no other users, but it's not like it used to be when the current spectrum allocations were original
So what I read into all this is: that those shared and excluded frequencies are allocated to other occupants that now rarely ( if ever) use them, but that national administrations don't think the ama
That could be one reading, Don. The other is that WRC Agenda time is intensely sought after, for many changes to spectrum allocations. IARU was confronted with the prospect of failing on both its bid