To: | "a TARA RTTY eGroup" <RTTY-TARA@yahoogroups.com>,"a RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com> |
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Subject: | Re: [RTTY] 160 RTTY Contesting |
From: | "Thomas Giella KN4LF" <kn4lf@tampabay.rr.com> |
Date: | Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:39:31 -0500 |
List-post: | <mailto:rtty@contesting.com> |
Floyd et all, Happy New Year 2005 to all! Whether we are talking "regions" or countries/entities the end result is the same, differing international band allocations. Yes I propose an international RTTY contest on 160 and/or inclusion of 160 meters in all established RTTY contests. CW and SSB contesters get by with the conflicting band allocation issue and so can we RTTY'ers. Yes I agree with your observations about the poor behavior of SSB etc. contesters on other bands but RTTY and 160 meter contesters are a different breed than the rest of the cabal. Yes I also agree that 160 meters is much busier now compared to 30 years ago when the LORAN A stuff was going on. But at the same time it is much less active than just 5-10 years ago. Every DXer in the 1845 kc Florida group has observed the same trend. It's not a propagation issue as I know a little about propagation http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf8.htm , it's more an issue of an exponential increase in silent keys, CCR antenna issues and attraction to the Internet. There exists a small sociopathic group of CW only on 160 meter dinosaur mentality operators that want the band to stay under utilized and therefore a sort QRM free semi private playground or gated community for their single pursuit of CW operation. I on the other hand support increased use of 160 meters to include all existing modes, while providing protection of narrow bandwidth modes from wide bandwidth modes. As far as DX windows go, these gentleman's agreements no longer exist on 160 meters, thanks to the recent ARRL declaration stemming from the ARRL 160 meter Ad Hoc Committee recommendations. In any event let's agree to disagree on the issue as gentlemen and still be friends. 73, Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF Retired Space & Atmospheric Weather Forecaster Plant City, FL, USA Grid Square EL87WX Lat & Long 27 58 33.6397 N 82 09 52.4052 W kn4lf@arrl.net KN4LF Amateur & SWL Radio History: http://www.kn4lf.com/index.htm Tom - I didn't say anything about allocations differing amongst countries, I referred to REGIONS. Here is the latest IARU band plan that I could find, and it shows the recommended band usage in the three Regions. As pointed out on the bottom of that page, these are only recommendations and are not binding upon any government.
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