Hi Warren, Ooops, what I *meant* was the "non-cw only" portion of the band.
As far as being more VHF operators... I guess i meant weak-signal types that
would be interested in contests.. I always thought we were in the EXTREME
minority.. it sure seems that way.. - bill
>From: "Warren J. Walsh" <wwalsh@skyweb.net>
>To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] CW
To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:26:10 -0500
>
>At 15:37 1/24/02 +0000, Bill Olson wrote:
>>For one thing, there are a LOT less of us, for another thing, we are
>>dealing a whole lot more with signals at the noise level, for another
>>operators regularly use CW in the non-cw part of the band. The point I am
>>making is that CW is and should be just one way to make a contact that you
>>otherwise would not. It is just a natural part of VHF operation!
>
>I would think that there would be MORE VHF/UHF operators then HF since
>almost everyone has operator privileges there. I also didn't know there
>were NON-CW portions of the bands, I thought CW was allowed on ALL of our
>frequencies (except maybe 14.233MHz, where anything other then SSTV is
>prohibited :-) )!
>
>
>73
>Warren - K2BM
>
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