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[TowerTalk] Proposed Changes to 40 Meters

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Proposed Changes to 40 Meters
From: ve6jy-freenet" <ve6jy@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (ve6jy-freenet)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 07:19:35 +0100



----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan or Patricia Griffiths" <w7ni@easystreet.com>
To: "Towertalk (E-mail)" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 06:19
Subject: [TowerTalk] Proposed Changes to 40 Meters


> On the surface, this may seem an inappropriate subject for
> this reflector but consider the implications to all of us
> with 40 meter beams if the band were suddenly moved down 100
> KHz to 6.9 MHz.


Not quite all of us....I'd certainly enjoy an expansion of 40m in either
direction.... To that end (of course, it'll never happen now that I planned
ahead!)  the 5 el 40m OWA style yagi that went up here last fall covers from
6.9 to 7.3 - just in case.

73 Don
VE6JY


> I have not heard what the ARRL would propose for a band plan
> if the 40 meter band suddenly changed from 7.0-7.3 MHz to
> 6.9- 7.2 MHz.  If the entire band plan just shifts down 100
> KHz, that means anyone who operates the low end of 40 cw
> will have to lengthen his elements to get the same
> performance from his antenna as he does now.  For most of
> us, it means more than just telescoping the elements out a
> little farther.  I doubt there is enough spare aluminum in
> your current beam to do this.  I don't think there is in
> mine.  I would be much happier if the band plan would take
> the activity normally found in the 7.2-7.3 region and move
> it to the 6.9-7.0 slot and just leave the rest of it alone.
> Since I never operate in the 7.2-7.3 region, I wouldn't have
> to do anything to my antenna.



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