Thats right Tommy, it is perfectly LEGAL and CORRECT according to the
FCC and the ARRL. BUT that does not make it RIGHT.
I live just outside of the city limits. I am legally in the county.
Which means, if I wanted to, it is perfectly LEGAL and according to
what you are saying, CORRECT that if I want to I can grab my .357
pistol, 16 gauge shotgun, or 30/30 rifle and fire off a few rounds.
But do I ? in a word NO. Why is that? Because I have neighbors that
most certainly wouldn't appreciate it, nor would I care to accidentally
kill someone. It is called common sense.
Perhaps that is the problem, eh folks? Lack of common sense. Just
because it is legal, does not mean it is right.
Dan/W4NTI
Tommy wrote:
> In order to make sure I was (at least half-way) correct in what I
> said previously, the below (edited) information is from the ARRL web
> site. The ARRL calls this the US Frequency Allocations, but it does
> not specify by whose 'authority' this chart was generated. It also
> offers to sell you the FCC Rules and/or their Licenses Manual which
> they state has a full disclosure (?). I have edited out all licenses
> classes with the exception of Extra, simply to shorten the list.
>
> It does seem to me (and always has) like the 'RTTY gang' and the Data
> operators have full right to operate RTTY and DATA on the very same
> frequencies as us CW guys. Note, there are no frequencies set aside
> on 80m for state traffic nets, so if RTTY/DATA happens upon a state
> net's favorite frequency, remember, they have the RIGHT to operate on
> that frequency also. I seriously doubt that outside of contest, any
> RTTY or DATA operator is intentionally going to QRM a
> state/region/area traffic net.
>
> So, if this information from the ARRL is correct, operating RTTY or
> DATA transmission is perfectly correct on 7.040, or 7.025, or 7.010
> MHz, or any frequency in the first 150 kc of the 40m band, and the
> same is true for CW. Whether either side likes it or not. One will
> also notice that the majority of time, outside of contesting, CW ops
> tend to stay out of the 'RTTY segment' and the RTTY guys (with the
> exception of foreign commercial stuff) tend to stay out of the CW
> segments, with the exception of 7.040 MHz which is a necessary RTTY
> DX calling frequency.
>
> I've been a die-hard CW operator for 54 years. If I were unable to
> adapt to change, my feathers would have been ruffled many more times,
> and all I would have gotten in return is more heart-burn.
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
>
>
> 160 Meters
>
> General, Advanced, Amateur Extra licensees:
> 1.800-2.000 MHz: CW, Phone, Image, RTTY/Data
>
>
> 80 Meters
>
> Amateur Extra class:
> 3.500-3.750 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 3.750-4.000 MHz: CW, Phone, Image
>
>
>
> 60 Meters: Five Specific Channels
>
> The FCC has granted hams secondary access on USB only to five
> discrete 2.8-kHz-wide channels. Amateurs can not cause inference to
> and must accept interference from the Primary Government users. The
> NTIA says that hams planning to operate on 60 meters "must assure
> that their signal is transmitted on the channel center frequency."
> This means that amateurs should set their carrier frequency 1.5 kHz
> lower than the channel center frequency.
>
> General, Advanced and Amateur Extra classes:
>
>
> 40 Meters
>
> Amateur Extra class:
> 7.000-7.150 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 7.150-7.300 MHz: CW, Phone, Image
>
>
> 30 Meters
>
> General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:
> 10.100-10.150 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data
>
>
> 20 Meters
>
> Amateur Extra class:
> 14.000-14.150 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 14.150-14.350 MHz: CW, Phone, Image
>
> 17 Meters
>
> General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:
> 18.068-18.110 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 18.110-18.168 MHz: CW, Phone, Image
>
> 15 Meters
>
> Amateur Extra class:
> 21.000-21.200 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 21.200-21.450 MHz: CW, Phone, Image
>
> 12 Meters
>
> General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:
> 24.890-24.930 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 24.930-24.990 MHz: CW, Phone, Image
>
> 10 Meters
>
> General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:
> 28.000-28.300 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 28.300-29.700 MHz: CW, Phone, Image
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